Primary liver liposarcoma

PubMed, the Internet portal of biomedical and life sciences literature, indexed an interesting article, entitled “A case of huge primary liposarcoma in the liver” (World J Gastroenterol. 2006 Feb 21;12(7):1157-9). Authors are Kuo LM, Chou HS, Chan KM, at all, from the Department of General Surgery, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, China. Primary liver liposarcoma is a rare disease. Because of its rarity, the knowledge of the clinical course, management, and prognosis of primary liver liposarcoma are all limited for clinicians. A 61-year-old female patient who suffered from a huge primary liposarcoma in the central portion of the liver had the clinical presentations of fever, nausea, vomiting, jaundice, and body weight loss. The huge tumor was resected successfully. To access the full abstract of the article, click here.