soft tissue sarcoma

soft tissue sarcoma
a general term for a malignant tumor derived from extraskeletal connective tissue, including fibrous, fat, smooth muscle, nerve, vascular, histiocytic, and synovial tissue, with almost all lesions originating from primitive mesoderm. Tumors arising in Schwann cells are also included.

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