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Soft-Tissue Tumors and Tumor-Like Conditions

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Soft-tissue tumors are defined as neoplasms derived from nonepithelial extraskeletal tissue of the body excluding the reticuloendothelial system, neuroglial cells, and supporting tissue of various parenchymal organs (Enzinger and Weiss 1983). Representative soft tissues from which neoplasms commonly arise are the muscles, fat, skin, blood and lymph vessels, lymph nodes, and nerve fibers. A survey of 1331 consecutive cases of benign soft-tissue tumors showed lipoma to be the most common, accounting for nearly half of the entire series, and fibrocystic tumors and hemangioma were relatively common (Myhre-Jensen 1981). Among sarcomas, liposarcoma ranked first, and fibrosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, unclassified sarcomas, leiomyosarcoma, and synovial sarcoma followed in descreasing order. The prevalence rate of sarcoma was estimated to be approximately 1% of all malignant tumors, and the benign to malignant mesenchymal tumor ratio was 100:1 in a hostpial population (Enzinger and Weiss 1983).

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    Bahk, YW. (2013). Soft-Tissue Tumors and Tumor-Like Conditions. In: Combined Scintigraphic and Radiographic Diagnosis of Bone and Joint Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25144-3_19

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