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Over the years, with advances in our understanding of soft tissue tumors, availability of an increasing number of diagnostic ancillary tests, and matured biopsy techniques with or without image guidance, needle biopsy investigation of a soft tissue lesion has largely replaced open excisional biopsy as the primary diagnostic tool to establish malignancy and to assess histologic type and grade. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has been used as the first-line approach for several decades in many medical centers in Europe and as a complementary tool to the needle core biopsy in a few large tertiary care centers in Northern America.

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