Demographic and histopathologic study of soft tissue lesions in a tertiary care hospital in South India

Priavadhana R, Meenakshisundaram K, Rajeswari T, Kunnumbrath A

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Priavadhana R¹, Meenakshisundaram K^1,*, Rajeswari T¹ and Arathi Kunnumbrath¹

¹Department of Pathology, ESIC Medical College and PGIMSR, KK Nagar, Chennai – 600 078, India

*Corresponding author: Dr. K. Meenakshisundaram, Professor & HOD, Department of Pathology, ESIC Medical College and PGIMSR, KK nagar, Chennai – 600 078, India. Email: drkms75@gmail.com

Received 18 April 2023; Revised 1 June 2023; Accepted 9 June 2023; Published 18 June 2023

Citation: Priavadhana R, Meenakshisundaram K, Rajeswari T, Kunnumbrath A. Demographic and histopathologic study of soft tissue lesions in a tertiary care hospital in South India. J Med Sci Res. 2023; 11(3):245-249. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17727/JMSR.2023/11-45

Copyright: © 2023 Priavadhana R et al. Published by KIMS Foundation and Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Abstract

The term soft tissue tumors (STT) encompass a wide range of tumors arising from the mesenchymal tissues. In this study, we have retrospectively analysed the various STTs occurring in the Department of Pathology and included all cases with a confirmed histopathological diagnosis of soft tissue lesions received during the study period of January 2018 – December 2019. These cases were further analysed for the site of the lesion, number of lesions, age and gender of the patients and the results tabulated. A total of 207 cases of soft tissue tumors with confirmed histopathological diagnosis were included in this study. The male: female ratio was 1.1:1. It was observed that most of the soft tissue tumors were seen in the 31-40 years age group (33%) followed by the 41-50 years age group (21%). The most common histopathologic subtype of tumors were of adipocytic origin (61%). Malignant morphology was observed in 2.4% of the cases. Soft tissue tumors are not uncommon tumors and account for 5.2% of cases among the routine histopathological specimens. This study is presented here to understand the demography and the spectrum of soft tissue tumors observed in a tertiary care centre.

Keywords: soft tissue tumors; histopathology; adipocytic