OCCURRENCE OF VARIOUS SOFT TISSUE TUMORS IN NORTH KARNATAKA

Inamdar S.S1, Kintan J. Sannghavi2, Siraj Ahmed S3*

Inamdar S.S1, Kintan J. Sannghavi2, Siraj Ahmed S3* 1Professor, Department of Pathology, S.N. Medical College & Hospital, Navanagar, Bagalkot, Karnataka, India 2Consultant, Department of Pathology,TATA Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India 3Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Gadag Institute of Medical sciences,Mallasamudra, Gadag, Karnataka, India

Abstract

Soft tissue can be defined as nonepithelial extra skeletal tissue of the body; benign soft tissue tumors outnumber malignant tumors by a margin of about 100:1 in a hospital population. The diagnosis and management of soft tissue tumors require a team perspective. A good clinical acumen, careful gross examination of the specimen and adequate sampling of the tumor is essential. The soft tissue tumors (232 cases) constituted 2.08 % of the entire biopsy material (11157 cases) recorded in the department of pathology. Soft tissue tumor accounted for 8.34% of all tumors (2781 tumors diagnosed during the study period). Benign soft tissue tumors constituted 9.91% of all benign tumors and malignant soft tissue tumor accounted for 4.27% of all malignant tumors diagnosed during the study period. Benign soft tissue tumors formed 85.78% of all soft tissue tumors while malignant soft tissue tumors constituted 14.22% of all soft tissue tumors with a benign to malignant ratio of 6.03:1.