Soft tissue tumors: Lipoma / benign lipomatous tumors

Epidemiologic Study of Benign Soft Tissue Tumors of Oral Cavity in an Iranian Population

Introduction: Few studies on benign soft tissue tumors of oral cavity have been conducted in an Iranian population. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of the benign soft tissue tumors of the oral cavity in three central pathology centers of Rasht, Iran. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, all benign soft tissue tumors of the oral cavity, were retrieved fro...

Molecular markers in benign and malignant soft tissue tumors

Metastatic Soft Tissue Tumors

Between 1998 and 2007, we treated 157 patients with malignant soft tissue tumors. Patients with obvious lymph node metastasis, metastasis from bone or soft tissue sarcoma, and with obvious advanced stage disease which had multiple metastases were excluded from the present analysis. Finally, sixteen of the 157 patients were diagnosed to have soft tissue metastasis from carcinomas or hematopoieti...

Soft tissue tumors: Elastofibroma

The etiology of this lesion remains unclear. It seems likely that the pseudotumor mass is the product of abnormal elastogenesis rather than of degeneration of preformed fibers. It has been suggested that repeated trauma by mechanical friction of the scapula against the ribs may induce the tumorlike process, since there is an increased prevalence in persons having a history of hard manual labor....

Significance of LRP and PPAR-γ Expression in Lipomatous Soft Tissue Tumors

BACKGROUND Molecular mechanism of differentiation in lipogenic tumor is still unknown in detail. Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein (LRP) and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-gamma), representative regulatory molecules of lipogenic differentiation, have been reported today as multi-functional molecules and to modulate tumorigenesis in various kind of cancer. ...