Soft tissue tumours.

Malignant Soft Tissue Tumours

Introduction Tumours of soft tissue are mostly benign lesions of connective tissue in children. A number of aggressive malignant tumours that require multimodal therapy do occur, however, usually including surgical management. These malignant soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) are relatively rare in childhood, contributing approximately 5–8% of childhood malignancies (approximately 850–900 children an...

Surgery and Soft-Tissue Tumours

Objective: In randomised Dutch Bone Metastasis Study on the palliative effect of single versus multiple fraction irradiation on painful bone metastases all impending fractures were excluded from participation. During intensive follow-up 35 fractures occurred in 1157 patients. A subset of 102 patients with a femoral lesion, in which 8 fractures occurred within 12 weeks after irradiation (8%), wa...

Soft Tissue Tumours of the Retroperitoneum

Purpose. This review summarizes the more prevalent soft tissue tumours arising in the retroperitoneum and highlights some recent fundamental and diagnostic developments relevant to mesenchymal tumours.Discussion. The retroperitoneum is an underestimated site for benign and malignant neoplastic disease, and represents the second most common site of origin of primary malignant soft tissue tumours...

WHO Classification of Soft Tissue Tumours

Soft Tissue Tumours with Epithelioid Morphoogy

Background: To study the morphological findings of soft tissue sarcomas with epithelioid morphology and their distribution with respect to the age, gender and location. Methods: In this descriptive study, soft tissue sarcomas (n=100) with epithelioid morphology were evaluated by two histopathologists Cinical and morphological features like age, gender, site and type of tumor were quantified and...