1. Synovial Cell Sarcoma in an Adolescent Liver Transplant Recipient
- Author
-
Mary Haag, Catalina Jaramillo, Cara L. Mack, Nathan Donaldson, and Ahmed Gilani
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Case Report ,Immunosuppression ,General Medicine ,Liver transplantation ,medicine.disease ,Malignancy ,Gastroenterology ,Synovial sarcoma ,Liver transplant recipient ,03 medical and health sciences ,surgical procedures, operative ,0302 clinical medicine ,Liver ,Synovial Cell ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Internal medicine ,Medicine ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Sarcoma ,business ,Cause of death - Abstract
Solid organ transplant recipients are at increased risk of malignancy. Pediatric transplant recipients particularly have a potentially higher risk given the young age of immunosuppression initiation. Posttransplant malignancies are the main cause of death in 5%–16% of liver transplantation patients. The frequency of de novo malignancies in pediatric liver transplant recipients has been reported to be 13%. Synovial sarcoma is a malignant mesenchymal neoplasm that has not been previously reported after liver transplantation. We report the case of an adolescent liver transplant recipient who was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma 14 years after liver transplantation.
- Published
- 2019
- Full Text
- View/download PDF