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Report of a Case and Collective Review of the Literature from 1937 to 1947

AARON A. FARBMAN, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1950;60(2):343-362.

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FIFTY-TWO cases of benign and malignant fatty tumors of the retroperitoneal space were reported in the literature from 1937 to 1947.¹ The present case report makes this total 53. Von Wahlendorf.² collected 165 of such cases up to 1921. From 1921 to 1937, after all repetitions were deducted, it was estimated that 76 cases had been reported.³ Therefore a total of approximately 300 cases have been reported up to the present time (table 1).

Moreland and McNamara^1m found 3 retroperitoneal liposarcomas among 16,000 tumors of all kinds. Donnelly¹⁰ collected 95 cases of primary retroperitoneal tumors at the University of Iowa Hospital during a period of twenty years. Two of these were fatty tumors, 1 of which was malignant. Stromme and Stander^1s at the New York Hospital found 12 retroperitoneal tumors in 13,113 gynecologic operations. One was a retroperitoneal lipoma.

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