Clinicopathological study of soft tissue tumors.

Clinical aspects of patients with soft tissue tumors encountered at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Toho University over a 15 year period between 1961 and 1976 were analyzed. Accurate clinical records and histological findings were available in 91 patients, 80 of whom had benign tumors and 11 of whom had malignant ones. Recurrence was seen in 7 of the 80 patients with benign tumors. The prognosis was poor in those with malignant tumors as expected, especially in those with rhabdomyosarcoma.