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Epithelioid sarcoma (ES) is a rare soft tissue sarcoma, first characterized as a distinct clinicopathologic entity by Enzinger in 1970, which presents in the two main clinicopathologic settings. The classic or distal type occurs mostly on the extremities of young adults as a slowly growing tumor within the dermis or subcutis. The proximal type occurs predominantly in older patients as deeply infiltrative masses in axial locations.
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Margaritescu, I., Chirita, A.D., Vasilescu, F. (2015). Epithelioid Sarcoma. In: Rare Malignant Skin Tumors. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2023-5_34
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