Abstract
A wide variety of bone and soft tissue lesions are seen in the pediatric population, including benign and malignant neoplasms, as well non-neoplastic processes. Fine needle aspiration and/or small biopsies are increasingly used for evaluating these lesions and in many cases, allow definitive diagnosis or a narrowed differential diagnosis on which to base treatment. This chapter describes the cytologic features of a number of common and uncommon neoplastic and non-neoplastic lesions of bone and soft tissue seen in the pediatric population, as well as key clinical and radiographic features of those entities and differential diagnostic considerations.
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Teot, L.A. (2017). Bone and Soft Tissue. In: Monaco, S., Teot, L. (eds) Pediatric Cytopathology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53441-0_5
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