Organ-sparing Surgery for Liposarcoma of the Spermatic Cord: Institutional Experience and Pooled Analysis

Liposarcoma presenting as a paratesticular mass with spermatic cord involvement is rare and frequently misdiagnosed (Coleman et al., 2003). Investigation of spermatic cord liposarcoma has been difficult because of its rarity. The current standard therapeutic approach for spermatic cord tumor has been radical inguinal orchiectomy with wide local resection of surrounding soft tissues (Rodriguez et al., 2014). Due to the improvement in oncologic outcome and growing attention devoted to functional issues of cancer survivorship, the current trend of organ preservation in the treatment of several cancers has started to evolve (Giannarini et al., 2010). However, to the best of our knowledge, only three instances of organ-sparing surgery in the treatment of spermatic cord liposarcoma have been reported (Manzia et al., 2010; Hsu et al., 2012; Peralta et al., 2013). In order to increase the experience in the treatment of spermatic cord liposarcoma, the present study reported an instance receiving organsparing surgery and reviewed related literature.