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Definition of Liposarcoma
1. Noun. Sarcoma of fat cells.
Definition of Liposarcoma
1. Noun. (medicine) Any malignant tumour that originates in adipose tissue ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Liposarcoma
1. A malignant tumour derived from primitive or embryonal lipoblastic cells. It may be composed of well-differentiated fat cells or may be dedifferentiated: myxoid (liposarcoma, myxoid), round-celled, or pleomorphic, usually in association with a rich network of capillaries. Recurrences are common and dedifferentiated liposarcomas metastasize to the lungs or serosal surfaces. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Liposarcoma
Literary usage of Liposarcoma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"THREE CASES OF liposarcoma IN DOGS »y ANNE G. JABARA Pathology Department, ...
Isolated cases of canine liposarcoma have been recorded by Corsy and Thomas ..."
2. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1908)
"THE Journal of Medical Research. (NEW SERIES, VOLUME XIV.) VOL. XIX., No. 2.
OCTOBER, 1908. Whole No. 108. RECURRENT liposarcoma OK THE KIDNEY. ..."
3. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"I have seen one mediastinal liposarcoma with tumor fragments in sputum and
metastasis in deltoid muscle. Cardiac.—In the heart lipomas have been described ..."
4. Diseases and Surgery of the Genito-urinary System by Francis Sedgwick Watson, John Henry Cunningham (1908)
"liposarcoma is that form which, besides the usual elements of sarcoma, contains
collections of fat tissue. In rare instances, sarcoma of the kidney assumes ..."
5. Atlas and epitome of general pathologic histology by Hermann Dürck, Ludvig Hektoen (1904)
"liposarcoma from the Peritoneum ( .- 80.): 1, Fatty tissue with multiplication
of cells; 2, greatly proliferated cells containing fat; 3, connective-tissue ..."
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