Pediatric Soft Tissue Pathology: A Happy Morpho-Molecular Union

It is my honor to discuss pediatric soft tissue tumor pathology in the Festschrift dedicated to my mentor, Pepper Dehner. No other pediatric pathologist has authored more soft tissue-related publications. To summarise pediatric soft tissue tumor pathology into just 10 pages would do neither this phenomenally interesting subject, nor the multitudinous, seminal contributions of Pepper Dehner to the field, justice. Rather than providing an exhaustive historical report here of all pediatric soft tissue neoplasms from the histological perspective, especially as this has been extensively dealt with, most recently through a full 2012 volume of Pediatric and Developmental Pathology dedicated to Soft Tissue Pathology as well as at intervals before then, in the detailed reviews of ‘Soft tissue Tumors in the first year of Life′,1 ‘Pathologic Evaluation of Pediatric Soft tissue Tumors′ 2 and the fascinating ‘Evolution of the Diagnosis and Understanding of Primitive and Embryonic Neoplasms in Children: Living through and Epoch′,3 I have instead selected a limited num ber of entities for discussion.
Source: Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology - Category: Pathology Authors: Source Type: research