Myxoid pleomorphic liposarcoma of the falciform ligament: a rare case report

Bashayer AlObaid; Nayef A Alzahrani; Nada Shokor; Kanan Alshammari

doi:10.1093/jscr/rjac531

Myxoid pleomorphic liposarcoma of the falciform ligament: a rare case report

J Surg Case Rep. 2022 Dec 7;2022(12):rjac531. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjac531. eCollection 2022 Dec.

Authors

Bashayer AlObaid¹, Nayef A Alzahrani^{2

3}, Nada Shokor⁴, Kanan Alshammari⁵

Affiliations

¹ College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
² Department of Surgery, National Guard Health Affairs, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
³ Department of Surgery, St George Hospital & University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁴ King Abdulaziz Medical Center, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ King Abdulaziz Medical Center, Department of Oncology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

Liposarcomas are a group of malignancies that mainly affect adults. Myxoid pleomorphic liposarcoma (MPL) is a newly added subtype of liposarcomas [1]. It is extremely rare and mostly affects infants and children, and it has a predilection for the mediastinum. We report a case of a 58-years-old female with MPL originating from the falciform ligament who presented initially with vague abdominal pain. MPLs have an aggressive pathology and high metastasis and recurrence potential.

Publication types

Case Reports