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ArticleJournal of surgical case reports2022

An extremely rare case of anterior mediastinal leiomyosarcoma: a case report.

Masashi Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Ishikawa, Tetsuya Fukui, Masaki Ikeda, Kazuo Ono

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Article in Journal of surgical case reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Masashi IshikawaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama, Japan.
Hiroyuki IshikawaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama, Japan.
Tetsuya FukuiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama, Japan.
Masaki IkedaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama, Japan.
Kazuo OnoDepartment of Diagnostic Pathology, Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center, 4-20 Komatsubara-dori, Wakayama, 640-8558, Japan.
Japanese Red Cross Society Wakayama Medical Center · JPKomatsu (Japan) · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We herein report an extremely rare case of leiomyosarcoma found in the anterior mediastinum. A 79-year-old man presented to our hospital with an anterior mediastinal mass incidentally found by chest computed tomography (CT) scan. Percutaneous needle biopsy revealed the presence of an undifferentiated sarcoma. Transsternal resection of the tumor with adjacent left mediastinal pleura was performed, and pathological analysis revealed a leiomyosarcoma, which was 11 cm in diameter, with bare margins. He was followed up on an outpatient basis with no adjuvant therapy. Although mediastinal lymph node recurrence was suspected on chest CT scan 18 months after surgery, the patient remained asymptomatic and rejected any additional antitumor treatments. He died of respiratory failure after incidental traumatic spinal injury about 30 months after tumor resection.

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PMID36381987
PMCPMC9662833
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