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The WHO classification of soft-tissue tumours derives from an article in a fascicle of the AFIP atlas in 1953 by Arthur Purdy Stout [1], the leading specialist on soft-tissue neoplasia at that time, and was later modified several times. Its current version [2] differentiates entities according to their histopathological derivation into 15 different groups, among them fibrous and fibrohistiocytic tumours, and further subdivides both of these according to their biological behaviour into benign, intermediate, and malignant lesions (Table 1). However, there are great difficulties with this classification, for several reasons.
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Zelger, B.G., Zelger, B. (2001). Skin Lesions of Fibrocytic and Fibrohistiocytic Differentiation: A New Concept and Classification. In: Cerio, R. (eds) Dermatopathology. Current Topics in Pathology, vol 94. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59552-3_7
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