Liposarcoma of the Nasopharynx: Diagnosis and Management of a Rare Diagnostic Entity

Table 1

Cases of nasopharyngeal liposarcoma, reported in the English literature.

Case no.	Study	Patient sex and age (years)	Histological type	Treatment	Follow-up	Patient’s status by the end of follow-up
1	Knowles and Huggill	Male 12	Not clearly classified	Radiotherapy	10 months	Dead
2	Nageris et al.	Female 28	Myxoid stroma, tumour cells with pleomorphic nuclei	Incomplete excision plus postoperative radiotherapy	11 years	Alive, Disease-free
3	Chakraborty et al.	Female 37	Well-differentiated, sclerosing subtype	Debulking-biopsy followed by radical radiotherapy and stereotactic radiotherapy	Not clearly defined	Residual tumor existed after treatment
4	Present case 2011	Male 58	Myxoid type	Endoscopic debulking, adjuvant chemotherapy, and radiotherapy	14 months	Alive, disease-free