In Reply to: sarcoma posted by joe on June 24, 2008 at 02:07:01:
Hi! My name is Stephanie and my husband Ed was recently diagnosed with a myxoid sarcoma in his right thigh. He will be starting chemo this week at Moffitt Cancer center in Tampa and will be getting surgery after that. They are pretty confident that it will be able to be resected and that he won't have to lose his leg. Thank God that his other CT scans were negative and it looks like it hasn't spread anywhere else. He is young, 38 years old and we have a 3 year old
Sampling represents an essential step to the diagnosis of myxoid lesions. In tumors which are not typically myxoid, myxoid changes will often hide at least some diagnostic features. For example, myxoid DFSP will usually lose its typical storiform pattern and will be difficult to distinguish from a myxoid neurofibroma. For these lesions, the identification of a solid component certainly represents the most important diagnostic clue. At the opposite, in some myxoid sarcomas which can have a solid component, the identification of myxoid areas may lead to the correct diagnosis. For example, the recognition of typical myxoid areas will allow to differentiate high grade myxofibrosarcoma from other pleomorphic (" MFH "-like) sarcomas.