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===General===
===General===
*Molecular changes and origin distinct from melanoma.  
*Molecular changes and origin distinct from [[malignant melanoma]].  
*Incidence: rare soft tissue tumour.
*Incidence: rare soft tissue tumour.


====Clinical====
====Clinical====
*Usually - deep soft tissue ''or'' extremities.
*Usually - deep soft tissue ''or'' extremities.
**Classically associated with tendons and aponeuroses.<ref>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Dim | first1 = DC. | last2 = Cooley | first2 = LD. | last3 = Miranda | first3 = RN. | title = Clear cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses: a review. | journal = Arch Pathol Lab Med | volume = 131 | issue = 1 | pages = 152-6 | month = Jan | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1043/1543-2165(2007)131[152:CCSOTA]2.0.CO;2 | PMID = 17227118 }}</ref>
*Guarded prognosis.
*Guarded prognosis.
*First described in 1965.<ref>URL: [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/723576818-750600/ftinterface~db=all~content=a789166263~fulltext=713240928 http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/723576818-750600/ftinterface~db=all~content=a789166263~fulltext=713240928]. Accessed on: 5 May 2010.</ref>
*First described in 1965.<ref>URL: [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/723576818-750600/ftinterface~db=all~content=a789166263~fulltext=713240928 http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/723576818-750600/ftinterface~db=all~content=a789166263~fulltext=713240928]. Accessed on: 5 May 2010.</ref>
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