Abstract
The diagnosis of soft tissue mesenchymal tumors can be challenging. These tumors are diverse with a wide range of clinical presentations as well as histological spectrums. Features of benign and malignant mesenchymal tumors can sometimes overlap with each other and even with non-mesenchymal tumors. They are also relatively rare and sometimes are not classifiable. All of these factors contribute to uncertainty when diagnosing these tumors in practice, especially in the era of increasingly smaller biopsies. Fortunately, there are tools that can assist pathologists. We present a practical approach to soft mesenchymal tumors and emphasize the most common pitfalls we have encountered at our practice.
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Wang, WL., Lazar, A.J. (2020). Soft Tissue. In: Moran, C.A., Kalhor, N., Weissferdt, A. (eds) Oncological Surgical Pathology . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96681-6_2
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