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Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma

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Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors

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This is a sarcoma of histiocytary origin, which is rarely constituted by histiocytes (histiocytoma) in its entirety, generally by histiocytes and fibroblasts (fibrous histiocytoma).

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Campanacci, M., Bertoni, F., Bacchini, P. (1990). Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma. In: Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-29279-2_7

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