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Sarcomas with Uncertain Differentiation

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Definition: Spectrum of lesions morphologically similar to those arising in the salivary glands. Malignant forms are called myoepithelial carcinomas.

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  1. Department of Pathology, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Marco Gambarotti & Alberto Righi

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. I.S.G. Italian Sarcoma Group, Bologna, Italy

    Piero Picci

  2. IIIrd Clinic of Orthopaedic Oncology, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Marco Manfrini

  3. Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Davide Maria Donati

  4. Department of Pathology, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Marco Gambarotti

  5. Department of Pathology, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Alberto Righi

  6. Istituto Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Daniel Vanel

  7. Department of Medicine, University of Padua School of Medicine, Padua, Italy

    Angelo Paolo Dei Tos

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Gambarotti, M., Righi, A. (2020). Sarcomas with Uncertain Differentiation. In: Picci, P., et al. Diagnosis of Musculoskeletal Tumors and Tumor-like Conditions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29676-6_45

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