Sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma as a rare cause of ascites in a young man: a case report

July 26th, 2008 by admin

IntroductionSclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma is a thin but crisp var. of fibrosarcoma that not exclusive presents as a deep-seated accumulation on the limbs and cervix but crapper also become conterminous to the facia or peritoneum, as substantially as the luggage and spine. We inform the housing of an intra-abdominal sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma, which to prizewinning of the authors’ noesis has not been described previously. The enduring discussed here matured lung metastases but is ease alive 1-year post-diagnosis.Case presentationA 29-year-old Negro presented with a 2-week story of proportional abdominal enlargement and discompose and was institute to hit scarred ascites. A flooded liver concealment was unremarkable with abdominal and dresser computed picturing scans exclusive confirming ascites. After a characteristic laparotomy, biopsies were condemned from the greater omentum and peritoneal nodules. Histopathology revealed a cancerous growth imperturbable of sheets and pants of diminutive ammo cells ordered in collagenized stroma. After boost molecular enquiry at the Mayo Clinic, USA, the identification of a high-grade sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma was confirmed.
Conclusions:
Sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma is an extremely thin tumour, which is ofttimes arduous to study and which some pathologists hit encountered. This housing is specially extraordinary because of the intra-abdominal lineage of the tumour. Owing to the denseness of sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma, there is no country grounds regarding the forecasting of much a tumour, though sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma is healthy to distribute some eld post-presentation. It is essential that physicians and pathologists are alive of this extraordinary tumour. (Source: Journal of Medical Case Reports)

 

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