title: [Angiomatoid malignant fibrous histiocytoma].
abstract: By clinical, pathologic and immunohistochemical study on aniomatoid malignant fibrous histiocytoma, which is a relatively uncommon soft tissue tumor described by Enzinger in 1979, and often misdiagnosed, we are reporting 32 cases of this lesion. The distinctive histopathology were: (1) Cystic change filled with hemorrhagic fluid or blood, (2) surrounded by nests of fibroblastlike and histocyte-like cells and (3) intermingled with chronic inflammatory cells, (4) often surrounded by a fibrous pseudocapsule. Immunohistochemical staining done in 4 cases showed all to be positive in lysozyme, three positive in Mac 387 and CD 68. These results support their histiocytic origin. Follow-up information was available in 25 of 32 cases. All the 25 patients were alive, 4 with recurrence (16%), 1 with metastasis (4%). These results concur with the opinion that intrinsically, this is a low grade tumor.
authors: Department of Pathology, First Affilated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University.
authors: Q
authors: Q
authors: Fan
authors: P W
authors: PW
authors: Allen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005121:Extremities; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000737:chemistry / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009113:Muramidase / Q000032:analysis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry / Q000473:pathology*; D014746:Vimentin / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D014746:Vimentin; D009113:Muramidase