neoplastic soft tissue masses. Although it contains a relatively small amount of somatic soft tissue elements, the foot is rich in tendons, fasciae, retinaculae, and synovium (1). In the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology series[LKH1], 8% of benign soft-tissue tumors and 5% of malignant soft-tissue tumors occurred in the foot and ankle, suggesting an unexpectedly high incidence on a tissue vol...