Seo Hyung-Il, Kim Dong-Il, Chung Youngsoo, Choi Chang In, Kim Minjoo, Yun Sungpil, Kim Suk, Park Do Youn
Department of Surgery, Biomedical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan 49241, South Korea.
Department of Surgery, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan 50612, South Korea.
World J Clin Cases. 2018 Aug 16;6(8):219-223. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v6.i8.219.
Leiomyosarcoma of an artery is very rare, and cases with hepatic metastasis are even rarer. We describe a case of a 70-year-old man who after follow up due to rectal cancer, presented with an intra-abdominal hypervascular mass and a hepatic mass. After surgical resection, it was diagnosed as a leiomyosarcoma of the right gastroepiploic artery with hepatic metastasis. Multiple metastases had recurred at the liver. He has survived more than 53 mo through multimodal treatments (three surgical resections, radiofrequency ablation, transarterial chemoembolization, chemotherapies, and targeted therapy). Multimodal treatments, including active surgical resection, may be helpful in the treatment of aggressive diseases such as arterial leiomyosarcoma with metastasis.