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Three osteosarcomas (OS) with features resembling malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) were selected and investigated to identify any clinico-pathological similarities. In all cases there was no significant difference from conventional OS on the radiography and laboratory data. The appearance of MFH-like features within the whole tumour tissue varied from 7% to 55%. It was composed of spindle-shaped cells arranged in short irregular fascicles and a storiform pattern admixed with osteoclast-like giant cells, but devoid of neoplastic osteoid. Such spindle-shaped cells had a poorly developed rough endoplasmic reticulum and expressed a strong alkaline phosphatase activity as well as vimentin. A series of allografts to athymic mice using the MFH-like tissues also showed histologically a proliferation of plump spindle-shaped cells with a storiform pattern lacking osteoclast-like giant cells, and intensely positive for alkaline phosphatase. These findings indicate that the MFH-like features are identified as modulated OS. The constituting cells are most likely to be poorly developed with possible phenotypic alteration in the maturation stage of osteoblastic cell lineage, but different from conventional MFH of bone as regards their distinct histochemical pattern.
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Yoshida, H., Yumoto, T. & Minamizaki, T. Osteosarcoma with features mimicking malignant fibrous histiocytoma. Vichows Archiv A Pathol Anat 421, 229–238 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01611180
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