Malignant fibrous histiocytoma: morphologic pattern or pathologic entity?

Since the concept of malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) was introduced and subsequently popularized in the 1960's and 1970's, it has become widely regarded as the commonest soft-tissue sarcoma of adulthood. Although the initial notion that MFH was a true histiocytic tumor showing faculative fibroblastic differentiation has been disproved, and despite the lack of definable, reproducible diagnostic criteria and considerable immunophenotypic,...