Soft tissue tumors cutaneous benignD48.1

Benign tumours of the supporting tissue and peripheral nerves, as far as they do not originate from the skeleton, lymphoreticular tissue or special organs. Original tissue: connective tissue, muscles, fat and nervous tissue, vessels. S.a. malignant soft tissue tumours, see below Cutaneous sarcoma.

The classification is based on the histogenesis principle.

• Fibrous and fibrohistiocytic tumours:
  • Fibroma
  • Fibromatoses
  • Dermatofibroma (Histiocytoma)
  • Connective tissue nevus
  • Pseudosarcoma
• vascular tumours:
  • teleangiectatic nevus
  • Nevus flammeus
  • Nevus araneus
  • Hemangioma
  • Angiokeratoma
  • Angiodysplasias
• Tendon and tendon sheath tumors:
  • Ganglion
  • Synovialoma
  • Tendon sheath fibroma
  • Giant cell synovialoma, benignes.
• fatty tissue tumours:
  • Lipoma
  • Hibernoma
• Myogenic tumours:
  • Leiomyoma
  • Angioleiomyoma
  • myositis ossificans
  • Nevus musculi arrector pili
• Neural tumors:
  • Neurom
  • Neurofibroma
  • Neurinoma
  • Glioma, peripheral
• Tumours of unknown genesis:
  • Granular cell tumor.

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