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Presentation of Case

Dr. David P. Ryan: A 68-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of a large retroperitoneal tumor.

The patient had been in excellent health. A few days before admission, a routine physical examination by his primary physician had revealed a large abdominal mass. He was admitted to the hospital.

The man was married and had retired from a sedentary occupation. He ran 5 to 10 miles weekly and remarked that, but for the mass, he would not know that he had cancer. There was a three-year history of hypertension, and he had been given a diagnosis of anxiety disorder. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Pathological Discussion

Discussion of Management

Anatomical Diagnosis

Source Information

From the Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute (G.D.D.); the Departments of Radiology (R.L.T.) and Hematology/Oncology (D.P.R.), Massachusetts General Hospital; the Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital (C.D.M.F.); and the Departments of Medicine (G.D.D., D.P.R.), Radiology (R.L.T.), and Pathology (C.D.M.F.), Harvard Medical School — all in Boston.

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