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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 175-178 |
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Two Forensic Autopsy Cases of Liposarcoma
Kino Hayashi1, Kumiko Asakura1, Nao Miyashita2, Akihiko Hamamatsu1, Akio Shigeta1, Tatsushige Fukunaga1
1 Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office, Tokyo, Japan
2 Specific Disease Control Section, Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo, Japan
Correspondence Address:
Kino Hayashi
Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office, Tokyo
Japan
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DOI: 10.4103/2349-5014.191473
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Primary liposarcoma outside thighs is rare. We present two forensic autopsy cases of clinically undiagnosed primary liposarcoma (Case 1: Mediastinum, Case 2: Mesentery). Case 1 was a thin male in his 60s who had a well-differentiated liposarcoma (850 g, 23 cm × 20 cm × 10 cm) in the superior mediastinum. Case 2 was a thin female in her 50s who had a pleomorphic liposarcoma (10 kg, 40 cm × 25 cm × 11 cm) in the abdominal cavity with liver metastases. The cause of death in Case 1 was airway obstruction due to liposarcoma of the neck; that in Case 2 was complications of liposarcoma with metastasis. Because liposarcoma often appears in deeper tissue without pain, it will grow quite large before it is noticed.
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