Rare Diseases Symptoms Automatic Extraction

Primary pleural liposarcoma, pleomorphic variant.

[liposarcoma]

Primary pleural liposarcoma (PPL) is a rare tumor derived from primitive mesenchymal tissue. We report a case of a 49-year-old female patient complaining of thoracic pain and dyspnea for 3 months. The chest X-ray showed a left basal opacity of lobulated contours and the thoracic computer tomography (CT) scan revealed a left pleural collection/mass, of 18 HU density and passive pulmonary atelectasis. The patient was taken to surgery and the cytologic examination of the gelatinous mass found in the procedure confirmed the diagnosis of a pleomorphic variant of pleural liposarcoma. We emphasise in the importance of careful inspection of the origin of the tumor in the diagnostic images to allow accurate diagnosis.

Diseases presenting "liposarcoma" symptom

  • dedifferentiated liposarcoma
  • erdheim-chester disease
  • focal myositis
  • gm1 gangliosidosis
  • liposarcoma
  • pleomorphic liposarcoma
  • well-differentiated liposarcoma

This symptom has already been validated