## BACKGROUND. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) is the most common type of soft tissue sarcoma in adults; it occurs frequently in the extremities, the trunk, or retroperitoneal tissues. MFH rarely is detected in digestive organs, such as the liver or stomach. ## METHODS. The authors report a
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma in the abdominal soft tissues of a child: A case report
β Scribed by Earl, Ursula ;Lockwood, Liane R. ;Batcup, Gillian
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 445 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-1532
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β¦ Synopsis
An 18-month-old female presented with an abdominal tumor mass which on morphological, immunohistological and ultrastructural examination was found to be a malignant fibrous histiocytoma. This soft tissue sarcoma is rarely encountered in childhood. Treatment in this case consisted of surgical tumor debulking with pre- and post-operative chemotherapy. The child is well and free of detectable tumor at 23 months after diagnosis.
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A case report of a 28-year-old woman with malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) of the left atrium is presented, and the six previous reports of this rare cardiac tumor are reviewed. A tendency for malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the heart to occur in the left atrium of young women is suggested; th
## Abstract Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) of the sigmoid colon is extremely rare and imaging characteristics of MFH during contrastβenhanced sonography have not been described yet. Here we report the case of a 55βyearβold man suffering from MFH in the sigmoid colon, with an emphasis on contr
## Abstract We have prepared karyotypes from a malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) of the brain of a 6βyearβold girl. Sporadic cases of MFH in the central nervous system have been reported. However, to our knowledge, this is the first central nervous system tumor to be subjected to cytogenetic ana