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*[[AKA]] ''Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma'', abbreviated ''UPS''.
*[[AKA]] ''Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma'', abbreviated ''UPS''.
*Previously known as ''malignant fibrous histiocytoma'', abbreviated ''MFH''.<ref>URL: [http://sarcomahelp.org/learning_center/mfh.html http://sarcomahelp.org/learning_center/mfh.html]. Accessed on: 8 April 2011.</ref>
*Previously known as ''malignant fibrous histiocytoma'', abbreviated ''MFH''.<ref>URL: [http://sarcomahelp.org/learning_center/mfh.html http://sarcomahelp.org/learning_center/mfh.html]. Accessed on: 8 April 2011.</ref>
 
{{Main|Pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma}}
===General===
*Common sarcoma.
*Usually deep tissue of the trunk and extremities.
*A diagnosis of exclusion<ref name=pmid19671033>{{cite journal |author=Matushansky I, Charytonowicz E, Mills J, Siddiqi S, Hricik T, Cordon-Cardo C |title=MFH classification: differentiating undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma in the 21st Century |journal=Expert Rev Anticancer Ther |volume=9 |issue=8 |pages=1135–44 |year=2009 |month=August |pmid=19671033 |pmc=3000413 |doi=10.1586/era.09.76 |url=}}</ref> / wastebasket for unclassifiable high grade sarcomas.
 
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=Ref_WMSP_613>{{Ref WMSP|613}}</ref>
*Storiform pattern ([[AKA]] ''patternless pattern'') - '''key feature'''.
*Marked [[nuclear pleomorphism]] '''key feature'''.
**Variation is nuclear size, nuclear shape and nuclear staining (esp. hyperchromasia).
*Mitoses - abundant; atypical mitoses common.
*Necrosis (common).
*Mix of spindle cells and epithelioid cells.
*Deep to skin  - '''important'''.
 
Other findings:
*+/-Giant cells (see subclassification).
*+/-Inflammation (see subclassification).
**Neutrophils.
**Eosinophils.
 
Notes:
*Superficial lesions with the morphology of ''PUS'' are called by some ''[[atypical fibroxanthoma]]s'' (AFXs).
 
DDx:
*[[Atypical fibroxanthoma]] (AFX) - superficial skin.
*[[Dedifferentiated liposarcoma]].
*[[Leiomyosarcoma]].
*[[Metaplastic carcinoma]].
*[[Malignant melanoma]].
*[[Rhabdomyosarcoma]].
*[[Synovial sarcoma]].
*[[Undifferentiated endometrial sarcoma]] - uterus.
*Others.
 
====Images====
<gallery>
Image:Pleomorphic_undifferentiated_sarcoma_-_very_high_mag.jpg | PUS - high mag. (WC/Nephron)
Image:Pleomorphic_undifferentiated_sarcoma_-_intermed_mag.jpg | PUS - intermed. mag. (WC/Nephron)
</gallery>
====Subclassification====
Pleomorphic sarcoma (PS) is subclassified the following way:<ref name=Ref_WMSP_613-4>{{Ref WMSP|613-4}}</ref>
*PS with giant cells.
*PS with inflammation.
*PUS (not otherwise specified) - wastebasket diagnosis; if neither of the above two apply.
 
===IHC===
Exclusionary stains - should be negative:
*AE1/AE3.
*p63.
*Myogenin.
*S-100.
*HMB-45.
 
Usually negative, may be positive:<ref name=Ref_WMSP613>{{Ref WMSP|613}}</ref>
*Desmin.
*SMA.
 
Commonly positive:
*CD68.<ref name=Ref_WMSP613>{{Ref WMSP|613}}</ref>
*Vimentin.


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