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ArticleJournal of neurosciences in rural practice2017

Primary Myxoid Liposarcoma of the Upper Thoracic Spine in an Elderly Patient.

Aristedis Rovlias, Alexia Balanika, Alexandros Nomikos, Savas Melissaris

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Article in Journal of neurosciences in rural practice, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cervical spine myxoid liposarcoma in a 30-year-old male: a rare case report.International journal of surgery case reports · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aristedis RovliasDepartment of Neurosurgery, Asclepeion General Hospital of Voula, Athens, Greece.
Alexia BalanikaDepartment of Computed Tomography, Asclepeion General Hospital of Voula, Athens, Greece.
Alexandros NomikosDepartment of Pathology, Asclepeion General Hospital of Voula, Athens, Greece.
Savas MelissarisDepartment of Neurosurgery, Asclepeion General Hospital of Voula, Athens, Greece.
General Hospital Asklepieio Voulas · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liposarcoma, one of the most common soft-tissue sarcomas, originates from primitive mesenchymal cells, and its diagnostic criteria have been well established. Myxoid liposarcoma is the second most common histological subtype, occurring more frequently during the fourth and fifth decades of life. There are only a few sporadic published cases of spinal liposarcomas, whatever primary or metastatic. We describe an unusual case of primary myxoid liposarcoma of the thoracic spine in a 79-year-old male, presented with a 2-month history of intractable dorsal pain and progressive weakness of lower limbs. Surgical treatment was performed with wide tumor resection, spinal cord decompression, and posterior instrumentation complemented by radiotherapy. Only one other case has been reported with this spinal localization in the literature. Despite its rarity, myxoid liposarcoma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of primary tumors of the thoracic spine.

Indexed as

Liposarcomamyxoid liposarcomaprimary spinal tumorsthoracic spine

Identifiers

PMID28936087
PMCPMC5602236
OpenAlexW2746369256

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