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Ria Vergara-Lluri Resident, PGY-4 David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Submission to Los Angeles Society of Pathology (LASOP) Resident and Fellow Symposium 2012
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Ria Vergara-LluriResident, PGY-4David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Submission to Los Angeles Society of Pathology (LASOP) Resident and Fellow Symposium 2012
Pertinent history and symptoms 43 year old woman presented in 2011 with recurrent soft tissue
tumor in the left arm In 2004, at age 35, she presented at another institution with a 5-
year history of a left arm mass (7.5 x 5.5 x 4 cm), which was resected and diagnosed as a sarcoma**
Because she lost her medical insurance, she did not receive any further therapy after surgical resection
At re-presentation in 2011, she had a large, protuberant and firm soft tissue mass (9.6 x 7.6 x 6.5 cm ) located along the posterior arm/triceps muscle
Based on diagnosis of high-grade sarcoma,** patient received induction chemotherapy followed by surgical resection with intraoperative and subsequent external beam radiation
**Diagnoses will be revealed later
External and cut surfaces of recurrent tumor (9.6 x 7.6 x 6.5 cm)
S-100
cytokeratin cocktail
bcl-2
