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Tumors of the Soft Tissue and Bone

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Tumors of the soft tissues and bones form a heterogeneous group that includes on one hand common benign neoplasms and, on the other less common, variably malignant neoplasms (sarcomas). Recent advances in molecular and cell biology have considerably influenced the present clinical approach to these tumors. As the classifications of these tumors and most notably soft tissue sarcomas constantly change and are refined by the addition of new data, the grading of soft tissue and bone sarcomas remains a work in progress [1, 2]. Accordingly we shall present only the most established grading systems used in daily surgical pathology practice.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA

    Zoran Gatalica M.D., D.Sc

  2. Caris Life Sciences, Phoenix, AZ, USA

    Zoran Gatalica M.D., D.Sc

  3. Soft Tissue Pathology, The Joint Pathology Center, 606 Stephen Sitter Ave., Silver Spring, 20910-1290, MD, USA

    John F. Fetsch M.D.

  4. National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Markku Miettinen M.D.

  5. Department of Pathology, The University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, USA

    Ivan Damjanov M.D., Ph.D.

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Gatalica, Z., Fetsch, J.F., Miettinen, M., Damjanov, I. (2013). Tumors of the Soft Tissue and Bone. In: Damjanov, I., Fan, F. (eds) Cancer Grading Manual. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34516-6_13

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