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LIPOSARCOMA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sarcoma of fat cells
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("liposarcoma" is a kind of...):
sarcoma (a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer)
Context examples:
Representative examples include angiosarcoma, liposarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, and extraskeletal osteosarcoma.
(Breast Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
This rearrangement is associated with myxoid liposarcoma.
(EWSR1/DDIT3 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples of malignant breast soft tissue neoplasms include angiosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, and liposarcoma.
(Breast Soft Tissue Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples of malignant mediastinal soft tissue neoplasms include angiosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, liposarcoma, osteosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, and synovial sarcoma.
(Mediastinal Soft Tissue Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include Kaposi sarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, and liposarcoma.
(Malignant Gastric Soft Tissue Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative morphologic variants include: well differentiated, dedifferentiated, pleomorphic, and myxoid/round cell liposarcoma.
(Liposarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The tumor maybe one of several histologic types including well-differentiated, dedifferentiated, myxoid/round cell, and pleomorphic liposarcoma.
(Adult Liposarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A malignant neoplasm characterized by the presence of a combination of liposarcomatous morphologic subtypes: myxoid/round cell and well differentiated/dedifferentiated liposarcoma or myxoid/round cell and pleomorphic liposarcoma.
(Mixed Liposarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A liposarcoma characterized by the presence of round non-lipogenic mesenchymal cells and small signet ring lipoblasts within a myxoid stoma with a vascular-branching pattern, or the presence of solid sheets of primitive round cells without myxoid stroma.
(Myxoid/Round Cell Liposarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A liposarcoma with areas of pleomorphism, resembling malignant fibrous histiocytoma.
(Pleomorphic Liposarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
