“…In cases of local recurrence, further surgery is often necessitated, which can be particularly challenging in the irradiated neck 9 . Nevertheless, for the small series of patients reported with retropharyngeal liposarcoma, local recurrence occurred in 5 of the 11 cases 6,10 . Two of these cases received radiotherapy with initial surgery, underwent subsequent resection and still had satisfactory outcomes 6,10 …”