Histomorphological Study of Soft Tissue Tumors and Review of Literature of Rarer Types

Abstract

Soft tissue tumors constitute a large and heterogeneous group of neoplasms. Clinically soft tissue tumors range from benign, self limited lesions to intermediate grade to highly Aggressive. Most of soft tissue tumors are benign, while few of them are malignant in nature. It ranges from most common benign tumours to some of the rare malignant soft tissue tumors. Our aim was to study the histomorphological patterns and features with review of literature of few rare malignant soft tissue tumours the retrospective study was carried in department of pathology, from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2014. A record was taken from total 5895 Patients; among them total 794 cases of soft tissue tumors were noted. Out of which 733 cases were found to be benign (92.8%) and 61 cases turned out to be malignant (7.2%). The most common benign tumor was leiomyoma (52%) followed by Haemangioma (16%) and Lipoma (10.1%) and common malignant tumor was Fibrosarcoma followed br Rhabdomyosarcoma. Among 794 cases, 183 tumors were diagnosed in male, while 611 cases were diagnosed in females. The most common site involved was extremities.