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MESENCHYMAL TUMOR IN THE SUBLINGUAL AREA: FIBROSARCOMA OR MONOPHASIC SYNOVIAL SARCOMA

Synovial sarcoma represents around 3% of all soft tissue sarcomas, but only 3-10% of them are found in head and neck area. They appear mostly as biphasic, whereas monophasic type is rare and represents bigger differentially diagnostic problem because of its similarity, both in histological and in cytological presentation, to some other well differentiated mesenchymal tumors, in the first place fibrosarcoma. It has characteristic chromosomal translocation t(X ; 18). Adult fibrosarcoma is also a rare tumor, it represents around 3% of all sarcomas, it doesn’ t have specific genetic abnormality, and is characterized by multiple chromosomal disturbances...

fibrosarcoma; lingual

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