Modern Soft Tissue Pathology

Markku Miettinen, MD, PhD, is Senior Clinician and Head of Surgical Pathology at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland.

1. Overview of soft tissue tumors Markku Miettinen; 2. Radiologic evaluation of soft tissue tumors Mark D. Murphey and Mark J. Kransdorf; 3. Immunohistochemistry of soft tissue tumors Markku Miettinen; 4. Genetics of soft tissue tumors Julie A. Bridge and Marilu Nelson; 5. Molecular genetics of soft tissue tumors Jerzy Lasota; 6. Fibroblast biology, fasciitis, retroperitoneal fibrosis, and keloids Markku Miettinen; 7. Fibromas and benign fibrous histiocytomas Markku Miettinen; 8. Fibromatoses Markku Miettinen; 9. Benign fibroblastic and myofibroblastic proliferations in children Markku Miettinen; 10. Childhood fibroblastic and myofibroblastic proliferations of variable biologic potential Markku Miettinen; 11. Myxomas and ossifying fibromxxoid tumor Markku Miettinen; 12. Solitary fibrous tumor, hemangiopericytoma, and related tumors Markku Miettinen; 13. Fibroblastic and myofibroblastic neoplasms with malignant potential Markku Miettinen; 14. Lipoma variants and conditions simulating lipomatous tumors Markku Miettinen; 15. Atypical lipomatous tumors and liposarcomas Markku Miettinen; 16. Smooth muscle tumors Markku Miettinen; 17. Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) Markku Miettinen; 18. Stromal tumors and tumor-like lesions of the female genital tract Markku Miettinen; 19. Angiomyolipoma and other perivascular epithelioid cell tumors (PEComas) Markku Miettinen; 20. Rhabdomyomas and rhabdomyosarcomas Erin Rudzinski, Vinay Prasad, Kadria Sayed, Faridali Ramji and David M. Parham; 21. Hemangiomas, lymphangiomas, and reactive vascular proliferations Markku Miettinen; 22. Hemangioendotheliomas, angiosarcomas, and Kaposi's sarcoma Markku Miettinen; 23. Glomus tumor, glomangiopericytoma, myopericytoma, and juxtaglomerular tumor Markku Miettinen; 24. Nerve sheath tumors Markku Miettinen; 25. Neuroectodermal tumors: melanocytic, glial, and meningeal neoplasms Markku Miettinen; 26. Paragangliomas Markku Miettinen; 27. Primary soft tissue tumors with epithelial differentiation Markku Miettinen; 28. Malignant mesothelioma and other mesothelial proliferations Markku Miettinen; 29. Merkel cell carcinoma and metastatic and sarcomatoid carcinomas involving soft tissue Markku Miettinen; 30. Cartilage- and bone-forming tumors Julie C. Fanburg-Smith and Mark D. Murphey; 31. Small round cell tumors Nick Shillingford, Hiroyuki Shimada and David M. Parham; 32. Alveolar soft part sarcoma Markku Miettinen; 33. Pathology of synovia and tendons Markku Miettinen; 34. Miscellaneous tumor-like lesions, and histiocytic and foreign body reactions Markku Miettinen; 35. Lymphoid, myeloid, histiocytic, and dendritic cell proliferations in soft tissues Markku Miettinen; 36. Cytology of soft tissue lesions Matjaž Šebenik and Živa Pohar-Marinšek; 37. Surgical management of soft tissue sarcoma: histologic type and grade guide surgical planning and integration of multimodality therapy Charlotte Ariyan and Samuel Singer; 38. Medical oncology of soft tissue sarcomas Robert G. Maki.