Abstract
Laryngeal and hypopharyngeal liposarcomas are extraordinarily infrequent tumors. To the best of our knowledge there are fewer than 40 well-documented cases reported to date. Almost all of them are well-differentiated liposarcomas, with only 2 laryngeal-hypopharyngeal dedifferentiated liposarcomas. Dedifferentiated liposarcoma is defined as a well-differentiated liposarcoma with areas of high-grade spindle cell nonlipogenic sarcoma. The well-differentiated areas may be of a lipoma-like, sclerosing, or mixed type, and the dedifferentiated areas most frequently are of malignant fibrous hystiocytoma-like type. Despite its commonly pleomorphic histology, dedifferentiated liposarcoma does not behave as aggressively as most pleomorphic sarcomas of adulthood; however, it has the capacity to metastasize, in contrast to its well-differentiated counterpart. We present a case of dedifferentiated liposarcoma arising in the pyriform sinus, an event only twice reported previously in the literature.
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