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Extraskeletal Myxoid Chondrosarcoma

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Definition: Soft tissue sarcoma composed of spindle and epithelioid tumor cells associated with extracellular myxoid matrix. Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcomas are genetically distinct from osseous chondrosarcoma.

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  1. Department of Anatomy and Pathological Histology, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Via del Barbiano 1/10, Bologna, 40136, Italy

    Marco Gambarotti MD

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  1. Muscoloskeletal Oncology, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Piero Picci

  2. Department of Surgery, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Marco Manfrini

  3. Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA

    Nicola Fabbri

  4. Department of Anatomy and Pathology, Istituto Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Marco Gambarotti

  5. Department of Anatomy and Pathology, Istituto Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy

    Daniel Vanel

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Gambarotti, M. (2014). Extraskeletal Myxoid Chondrosarcoma. In: Picci, P., Manfrini, M., Fabbri, N., Gambarotti, M., Vanel, D. (eds) Atlas of Musculoskeletal Tumors and Tumorlike Lesions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01748-8_80

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