Spermatic Cord Liposarcoma in the Context of a Recurrent Inguinal Hernia, Case Report

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Del Carmen Ortega Ignacio Escalona Ramrez Luis Enrique Hernández Rejon Minerva Irene Herrera González Antonio Monroy Cedillo José Luis Rivero Yañez Fernando Salazar Jiménez Marcos Irving Valdez Diaz Brenda

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Salazar Jiménez Marcos Irving
General Surgery Service, Hospital Central Norte PEMEX, Mexico City, Mexico

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Introduction: The spermatic cord sarcomas are rare entities, with only 46 cases reported in the last 5 years worldwide. The majority of those were misdiagnosed as inguinal hernias and treated with hernioplasty, delaying the correct treatment. Case report: We present a 56-year-old male who was operated 3 times for right inguinal hernia recurrence. Because of a persistent right spermatic cord bulk, he had a right radical orchiectomy, and the pathology reported the diagnosis of liposarcoma. Afterward, we requested a PET/CT which revealed a hypermetabolic lesion of 33x32mm in the right scrotum. We performed an oncological resection and classified the tumor as a stage III liposarcoma. Conclusion: The reported case illustrates the classical presentation of these tumors and their evolution. Despite the radical treatment, due to the biology of this cancer, the prognosis is bad if patients are not operated properly from the beginning.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Thu 09, Aug 2018
Accepted: Sat 25, Aug 2018
Published: Sat 15, Sep 2018

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© 2023 Salazar Jiménez Marcos Irving. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2018.03.001