Table 1 Case reports of primary liposarcoma originating in the liver

1

Wolloch et al., 1973 [8]

22 y/F

Right lobe

Myxoid

Right lobe hepatectomy

Death 46 days after surgery

2

Kim et al., 1987 [9]

30 y/F

Left lobe

Dedifferentiated

Left lobe hepatectomy

NED 10 months

3

Chen et al., 1988 [10]

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

4

Soares et al., 1989 [11]

2 y/M

Hilum

n/a

Autopsy

n/a

5

Wright et al., 1993 [12]

3 y/M

Hilum

Myxoid

Surgical resection, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy

Local recurrence 11 years later; death 3 months after recurrence

6

Aribal and Berberoglu, 1993 [13]

48 y/F

Hilum

Myxoid

Chemotherapy

n/a

7

Khan et al., 2001 [14]

50 y/M

Right lobe

n/a

Right lobe hepatectomy

n/a

8

Nelson et al., 2001 [15]

54 y/F

Right and left lobes

Myxoid

Exploratory laparotomy with biopsy

Postoperative hemorrhage and death

9

Kuo et al., 2006 [16]

61 y/F

Right and left lobes

Myxoid

Three-segmentectomy (1st time); hepatectomy (2nd time); hepatectomy (3^rd time); radiotherapy

Repeated recurrences; death 26 months after initial diagnosis due to liver failure and aspiration pneumonia

10

Kim et al., 2007 [17]

63 y/F

Left lobe

Well-differentiated

Left lobe hepatectomy

n/a

11

Binesh et al., 2012 [18]

83 y/F

Left lobe

Myxoid

Left lobe hepatectomy and chemotherapy (1st time); left lobe hepatectomy (2nd time)

Local recurrence 19 months after 1st operation; NED after 2nd operation

12

Naik et al., 2013 [6]

42 y/M

Left lobe

Pleomorphic

Left lobe hepatectomy and chemoradiotherapy

NED

13

Liu et al., 2018 [19]

29 y/M

Left lobe, with intraperitoneal metastases

Myxoid

Chemotherapy

Death 5 months after initial diagnosis due to extensive metastasis

14

Present case

62 y/F

Right lobe

Pleomorphic

Partial right lobe hepatectomy

(1st time); right hepatectomy (2nd time); chemotherapy

Local recurrence 41 months after 1st operation; distant metastases 1 month after 2nd operation; death 5 months after recurrence