Essentials of pathologic diagnosis in soft tissue tumor                 WANG Jian. Department of Pathology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Abstract    Owing to the low incidence, complexity in histological appearance, overlapping features between different entities, lots of pseudosarcomatous lesions and tumors of intermediate malignancy, the diagnosis of soft tissue tumors is one of most challenging job in surgical pathology. It is recommended that pathologists should not only rely on the histology alone. The correlations between clinic, radiology and pathology are essential in arriving at the correct diagnosis. Moreover, regular screening of the recent literatures with focus on the advancement of soft tissue tumors and newly described entities are also very important.