Liver and intrahepatic bile ducts - tumor

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Liver and intrahepatic bile ducts - tumor

Other malignancies

Fibrosarcoma

Reviewers: Deepali Jain, M.D. (see Reviewers page)
Revised: 9 January 2013, last major update February 2012
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General
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● < 50 cases reported
● Usually solitary masses in men age 40+ years
● 20% associated with cirrhosis, 20% associated with hypoglycemia
● May appear post-transplant
● May be malignant version of solitary fibrous tumor (Int J Surg 2008;6:396), see also J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg 2007;14:595 (malignant transformation of SFT to fibrosarcoma)

Case reports
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● 39 year old man with sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma infiltrating inferior vena cava (World J Gastroenterol 2009;15:4204)

Gross images
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Sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma

Micro images
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Sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma

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