Primary Well Differentiated Breast Liposarcoma with Divergent Cartilagenous Differentiation: A Case Report

• DOI: 10.5001/omj.2013.37
• Publication Date: 2013-04-06T05:42:48Z
• Authors: Ammar Cherkess Al...; Mohamed Sharif El...; Abdulaziz Al-Seif
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; Breast sarcomas; 0302 clinical medicine; R; Chondroid/cartilaginous differentiation; Medicine; Liposarcoma; Dedifferentiated liposarcoma.; 3. Good health

Primary liposarcomas of the female and male breasts are very rare. Heterologous differentiation in adipocytic tumors is also an exceedingly rare phenomenon, which occasionally reported literature. We describe case a 22 year-old who presented with relatively large left breast mass was clinically diagnosed as giant fibroadenoma, but histologically showed well differentiated liposarcoma evidence extensive chondroid differentiation. The mammographic radiological features correlated histopathological appearances together literature review comparison similar cases.