Liposarcoma is the most common soft tissue malignancy and usually occurs in the retroperitoneum or the extremities but rarely in the kidney. In this article, we report a case of a 71-year-old female patient who presented with abdominal lump and left flank pain for 1 month. An abdominal contrast-enhanced computed tomography scan demonstrated a 12 cm × 7 cm solid mass arising from the upper pole of left kidney and another 8 cm × 6 cm low-density retroperitoneal mass with fat density. Radical nephrectomy of the left kidney and resection of the retroperitoneal mass were performed. Surprisingly, pathological examination revealed a high-grade sarcoma (with minor lipomatous component) in the left kidney and a retroperitoneal well-differentiated liposarcoma. MDM2 gene amplification was identified by fluorescence in situ hybridization in both tumors, supporting final diagnosis of dedifferentiated liposarcoma of the kidney and well-differentiated liposarcoma of the retroperitoneum.
Keyphrases
- computed tomography
- contrast enhanced
- robot assisted
- magnetic resonance imaging
- high grade
- soft tissue
- case report
- magnetic resonance
- positron emission tomography
- adipose tissue
- diffusion weighted
- genome wide
- copy number
- diffusion weighted imaging
- gene expression
- fatty acid
- low grade
- spinal cord injury
- spinal cord
- quantum dots
- image quality