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Sarcoma, Alveolar Soft Part

"Sarcoma, Alveolar Soft Part" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A variety of rare sarcoma having a reticulated fibrous stroma enclosing groups of sarcoma cells, which resemble epithelial cells and are enclosed in alveoli walled with connective tissue. It is a rare tumor, usually occurring between 15 and 35 years of age. It appears in the muscles of the extremities in adults and most commonly in the head and neck regions of children. Though slow-growing, it commonly metastasizes to the lungs, brain, bones, and lymph nodes. (DeVita Jr et al., Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 3d ed, p1365)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sarcoma, Alveolar Soft Part" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Sarcoma, Alveolar Soft Part" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2001 and 2016 and 2017 and 2021 and 2023
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.