Open AccessGiant bilateral posterior mediastinal liposarcoma excision
Author(s) -
Pramod Reddy Kandakure,
Shailaja Kambhampati,
Yoganand Katta,
Amar Timanwar,
Vijay Kumar Lakka
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery/indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 0973-7723
pISSN - 0970-9134
DOI - 10.1007/s12055-018-0703-6
Subject(s) - medicine , liposarcoma , cardiothoracic surgery , thoracotomy , lipoma , radiology , cardiac surgery , dysphagia , mediastinum , surgery , sternum , mediastinal mass , sarcoma , pathology
A 50-year-old female, presented with severe dyspnoea and dysphagia only to solids. Chest-computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a giant bilateral intrathoracic mass in posterior mediastinum causing marked shift in the midline structures, squeezing the heart to sternum. CT-guided biopsy showed lipoma. The patient underwent left posterolateral thoracotomy for surgical removal of entire mass weighing 6 kg and measured 42 × 25 × 10 cm, with histologic examination reported as liposarcoma grade 1. It is the largest surgically treated intrathoracic liposarcoma documented in the modern literature.