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Table 1 Overview of case reports of cystic degeneration in liposarcomas

From: Dedifferentiated liposarcoma with extensive cystic change causing significant diagnostic challenges: report of two cases and review of the literature

Publication

Age/Sex

Site

Size (cm)

Imaging modalities

Radiological differential diagnosis

Histological diagnosis

Ref

Morihara et al. (2003)

77 m

r

n/a

CT, FDG-PET

malignant retroperitoneal tumor

DDLPS

[15]

Sorour et al. (2023)

86 m

r, pn

13 × 12 × 24

CT, MRI

chronic hematoma, liposarcoma, lymphoma, peripheral nerve sheath tumor

DDLPS

[11]

Komine et al. (2019)

60 m

r

23 × 21x15

CT, MRI, FDG-PET

“mucinous type of retroperitoneal sarcoma”, liposarcoma

WDLPS with multilocular cysts

[14]

Van Haverbeke et al. (2017)

69 f

r

3 (recurrence)

MRI

recurrence of the known liposarcoma

DDLPS with heterologous osteosarcomatous and aneurysmal bone cyst-like morphology

[18]

Uchihashi et al. (2017)

67 f

r, pn

21 × 14x13

MRI

“radiological diagnosis […] difficult”

DDLPS

[17]

Khoury et al. (2015)

72 f

r, pn

8.7 (primary),

20 (recurrence)

US, CT

n/a

DDLPS

[13]

Núñez et al. (2005)

67 f

mes

8.5 × 7.5

US, CT

n/a

“myxoid type liposarcoma”

[16]

Horiguchi et al. (2002)

71 m

pn

n/a

CT

cystic renal cell carcinoma, angiomyolipoma

DDLPS

[12]

  1. Abbreviations: f female, m male, r retroperitoneal, pn perinephric, mes mesenteric, CT computed tomography, FDG-PET fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, MRI magnetic resonance imaging, US ultrasound, DDLPS dedifferentiated liposarcoma, WDLPS well-differentiated liposarcoma