Malignant fibrous histiocytoma is a high-grade and aggressive sarcoma. It is a type of histiocytoma that is the most common soft tissue sarcoma of late adult life. These tumors rarely involve the head and neck region. Wide excision followed by postoperative radiotherapy is believed to be the treatment of choice for malignant fibrous histiocytoma. We present a rare case of malignant fibrous hist...

Benign fibrous histiocytoma of the nasal cavity in a newborn is rare, and the MR imaging appearance of this entity has not been reported. We present the MR and CT findings in such a case and review the differential diagnosis for intranasal masses in the neonate.

Benign fibrous histiocytoma (BFH) occurs commonly in soft tissues with very few cases of BFH of bone on record. We report a case of BFH of tibia in fifty year old male who presented with supracondylar fracture femur due to trivial fall and a brief review of literature.

Malignant fibrous histiocytoma, a type of sarcoma, is a malignant neoplasm with uncertain origin that arises in both the soft tissues and the bone. The occurrence of primary malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the pleura is extremely rare. We report a case of a 65-year-old Korean man who is being diagnosed with primary malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the pleura.

The authors report the successful surgical and chemotherapeutic management of a malignant fibrous histiocytoma with localization in the heart. This rare malignancy has specific morphologic characteristics and is diagnosed in adults when it is already locally aggressive or metastasized. The average survival time for patients with malignant fibrous histiocytoma is < 12 months. Neither clinical no...

BACKGROUND We present the extremely rare case of a 67-year-old male with malignant fibrous histiocytoma, arising in the lumbar spine, demonstrated with radiological and pathological studies. CASE REPORT The patient and his relatives refused open surgical approach and we performed transpedicular vertebral corpus biopsy and vertebroplasty under spinal anesthesia. His pathological result was mal...

Atypical fibroxanthoma (AFX) is an uncommon, fibrohistiocytic tumor of the skin that occurs due to actinic damage in the elderly (1). AFX rarely affects eyelid (2). It appears as solitary nodule that smaller than 2 cm (3). Boynton was the first to describe a case of AFX involving the eyelid in the literature (2). Aggresive recurrence was reported in few AFX cases, despite the benign nature of t...