Liposarcoma is a malignant soft tissue tumor that rarely involves the gastrointestinal tract. The dedifferentiated type typically carries the worst prognosis. Here, we describe a rare case of dedifferentiated liposarcoma of the rectum in a young male patient who was treated with surgical excision.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present a unique case of a patient simultaneously diagnosed with solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) and unrelated adenocarcinoma of the lung, both proven with separate pathology. It was subsequently found that the SFT had metastasized to the brain by additional pathology, and not the predicted adenocarcinoma. SFTs are a rare mesenchymal neoplasm that accounts for less than 2% of all reported soft tissue tumors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEpithelioid sarcoma is a rare high-grade malignancy identified by Enzinger in 1970. It accounts for 1% of all reported soft tissue sarcomas and presents most commonly in distal upper extremities in young adults with a male predominance. At this time, there are only 5 previously reported cases of primary epithelioid sarcoma of the orbit.
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