A rare malignant connective tissue tumour arising in the upper lip.
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma is a very unusual lesion. Only three per cent of cases have been reported in the head and neck, the peak incidence occurring in the seventh decade. A case is reported of a lesion situated in the upper lip of a 54-year-old man.
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008048:Lip Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged