Case report highlighting the presentation of malignant fibrous histiocytoma on an extremity in an elderly patient.
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May support MFH in elderly extremity mass differentials; hypothesis-generating and should not change practice.
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma is a soft tissue sarcoma found in young & elderly and rarely in children. It is rarely confined exclusively to skin and subcutis. In most cases it is only diagnosed after excision and analysis of the tumour. It is aggressive presenting a high degree of local recurrence and metastasis. This article reports a case of malignant fibrous histiocytoma on an extremity of 73 year old patient.
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