LIPOSARCOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liposarcoma mean? 

• LIPOSARCOMA (noun)
  The noun LIPOSARCOMA has 1 sense:

1. sarcoma of fat cells

  Familiarity information: LIPOSARCOMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIPOSARCOMA (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 

It is the rarest liposarcoma variant and usually has an aggressive clinical course.

(Pleomorphic Liposarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare morphologic variant of well differentiated liposarcoma occurring most often in the retroperitoneum.

(Inflammatory Liposarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples of malignant gastric soft tissue neoplasms include Kaposi sarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, and liposarcoma.

(Gastric Soft Tissue Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A liposarcoma that has metastasized to a secondary site.

(Metastatic Liposarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This tumor is part of a spectrum that includes round cell liposarcoma and that is characterized by recurrent cytogenetic aberrations: t(12;16)(q13;p11) and t(12;22)(q13;q12).

(Myxoid Liposarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A liposarcoma that arises from the ovary and is composed of round to oval mesenchymal cells, small signet ring lipoblasts, and a rich network of capillaries in a myxoid stroma.

(Ovarian Myxoid Liposarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Translocations of the gene are associated with malignant myxoid liposarcoma, acute myeloid leukemia and angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma.

(FUS wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A liposarcoma of any histologic subtype mixed with a non-lipomatous, high grade sarcomatous component.

(Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Two translocations involving the gene, t(12;16)(q13;p11) with the FUS gene and t(12;22)(q13;q12) with the EWSR1 gene, are associated with myxoid liposarcoma.

(DDIT3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A liposarcoma characterized by the presence of a fibroblastic component.

(Fibroblastic Liposarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)