title: Myxoid variety of malignant fibrous soft tissue histiocytoma.
abstract: Three cases of the myxoid variety of malignant fibrous histiocytoma (I.F.M.) of the soft tissues are reported. This condition should be recognised as a separate entity differing from other benign pseudosarcomatous or malignant lesions of the soft tissues in that the myxoid component is present not as an occasional background, but as an integral constituent of the neoplasm. This indicates a more favourable prognosis as compared with other varieties of malignant fibrous histiocytoma.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*