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Using electron microscopy, immunohistochemistry, and cytogenetics, it has come to be understood that most tumors that were initially considered to be various types of fibrohistiocytic tumors are actually not histiocytic in origin. Rather, these tumors are a diverse group of neoplasms that only appear histologically similar to fibrohistiocytic tumors. In the revised 2013 WHO classification of soft tissue sarcomas, the term “malignant fibrous histiocytoma” was removed from the “so-called fibrohistiocytic tumor” category. The so-called fibrohistiocytic tumors are composed of the following four tumors: tenosynovial giant cell tumor, deep benign fibrous histiocytoma, plexiform fibrohistiocytic tumor, and giant cell tumor of soft tissue.
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Kang, H.S., Hong, S.H., Choi, JY., Yoo, H.J. (2017). So-Called Fibrohistiocytic Tumors. In: Oncologic Imaging: Soft Tissue Tumors. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-718-5_6
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