Open AccessA rare entity of undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma of the mandible - A case report
Author(s) -
T S Archana,
Akshay Shetty,
Mohammed Imran,
Nida Ahmed,
P. Praveen Kumar,
T M Shruthi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of maxillofacial surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 2231-0746
DOI - 10.4103/ams.ams_334_20
Subject(s) - medicine , undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma , sarcoma , mandible (arthropod mouthpart) , neck dissection , fibula , radiation therapy , adjuvant radiotherapy , pathology , surgery , soft tissue sarcoma , carcinoma , tibia , botany , biology , genus
Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma originally known as malignant fibrous histiocytoma was declassified by the World Health Organization in 2002 as a formal diagnostic entity and renamed as an undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma. It accounts for <1% of malignant tumours of the long bone.