fibrosarcoma
- noun
- /ˌfaɪbroʊsɑrˈkoʊmə/
- Specialized
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fibrosarcoma
- After many tests, the pathologist confirmed the presence of fibrosarcoma, which was affecting the tissue around her knee.
- sarcomas such as fibrosarcoma
Examples
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Sweeping cellular fascicles, herringbone pattern, and a more parallel arrangement of the collagen fibers are differentiating features of the rare fibromatosis and fibrosarcoma.
Academic text (1996) -
Immunohistochemistry plays an important part in diagnosis and in excluding fibrosarcoma, synovial sarcoma, and fibrous histiocytoma.
Academic text (2004) -
Management must be planned as low-grade fibrosarcoma due to its local aggressive behavior.
Academic text (2007) -
They are treated as low-grade fibrosarcoma due to local aggression 5 6 10.
Academic text (2007) -
Myofibromatosis must be differentiated from neurofibromatosis, fibrosarcoma, hemangiopericytoma, and leiomyoma/leiomyosarcoma.
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The increased cellularity and atypia can resemble features of malignancy, and these lesions have been confused with fibrosarcomas and malignant schwannomas.
Academic text (1996) -
Frankenthaler et al. reviewed the records of 118 patients who had been treated at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston for soft-tissue fibrosarcoma of the head and neck; this population included 32 patients who had malignant fibrous histiocytoma.
Academic text (2001) -
The doctor diagnosed her with fibrosarcoma, explaining that it was a rare type of cancer that originates from fibrous connective tissue.
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In his lecture, the oncologist emphasized that fibrosarcoma is particularly challenging to treat because of its local aggressive behavior.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word fibrosarcoma begins with fibro-, like fiber, meaning 'thread-like' or 'connective' tissue. The second part, -sarcoma, comes from a Greek word for 'flesh' and now means a cancerous tumor, so a fibrosarcoma is a cancer that grows from fibrous tissue.
