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Synovial Sarcoma (SS)

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Definition: Malignant mesenchymal tumor which displays a variable degree of epithelial differentiation and a specific translocation t(X;18).

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  1. Department of Anatomy and Pathological Histology, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Via del Barbiano 1/10, Bologna, 40136, Italy

    Marco Gambarotti MD

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  1. Muscoloskeletal Oncology, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Piero Picci

  2. Department of Surgery, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Marco Manfrini

  3. Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA

    Nicola Fabbri

  4. Department of Anatomy and Pathology, Istituto Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Marco Gambarotti

  5. Department of Anatomy and Pathology, Istituto Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Daniel Vanel

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Gambarotti, M. (2014). Synovial Sarcoma (SS). In: Picci, P., Manfrini, M., Fabbri, N., Gambarotti, M., Vanel, D. (eds) Atlas of Musculoskeletal Tumors and Tumorlike Lesions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01748-8_76

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