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soft tissue tumors

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Classifications

- WHO classification of soft tissue tumors (2013)
- WHO classification of soft tissue tumors (2002)

Diagnosis

Diagnosis of soft tissue tumors by tumoral patterns

- soft tissue tumors with spindle cell pattern

  • nodular fasciitis pattern
  • fibromatosis pattern
  • fibrosarcoma pattern
  • storiform pattern
  • patternless pattern

- soft tissue tumors with epithelioid cell pattern
- soft tissue tumors with small round blue cell pattern
- soft tissue tumors with large pleomorphic cell pattern
- soft tissue tumors with myxoid pattern : myxoid soft tissue tumors / soft tissue myxoid tumors

Links

- IHC of soft tissue tumors

- Basic Musculoskeletal Histology & Cell Identification by Dhruv Kumar, MD, at WCI, DC

- Round Cell and Soft Tissue Tumors
Clinical: Daria Brooks, MD; Radiology: James Jelinek, MD - Pathology: Norio Azumi, MD
by Daria Brooks, MD; James Jelinek, MD; Norio Azumi, MD at WCI, DC

- Molecular characterisation of Soft Tissue Tumors: a gene expresion study. Stanford University, CA

See also

- soft tissue sarcomas
- soft tissue pseudosarcomas
- tumors

  • sarcomas
    • soft tissue sarcomas

- diagnosis of tumors

  • diagnosis of tumor types

Reviews

- Immunohistochemistry in diagnosis of soft tissue tumours. Fisher C. Histopathology. 2011 Jun;58(7):1001-12. PMID: 21143519

- Clark MA, Fisher C, Judson I, Thomas JM. Soft-tissue sarcomas in adults. N Engl J Med. 2005 Aug 18;353(7):701-11. PMID: 16107623

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