Primary mediastinal liposarcoma, with 6 Years of follow-up to autopsy, revealed histopathological features of primary and metastatic lesions

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 771-775

  Konno, Satoshi ^a   Oizumi, Satoshi ^a   Shinagawa, Naofumi ^a   Kikuchi, Eiki ^a   Konishi, Jun ^a   Ito, Kenichiro ^a   Hizawa, Nobuyuki ^b   Takiyama, Akihiro ^c   Tanaka, Shinya ^c   Nishimura, Masaharu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Mediastinal liposarcoma; Metastasis; Primary; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

PIOGLITAZONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPNEA; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIMARY TUMOR; TRACHEOSTOMY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

AGED; FATAL OUTCOME; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77951228913     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.2974     Document Type: Article

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