Sarcoma
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 741975, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/741975
Research Article

Histopathological Diagnostic Discrepancies in Soft Tissue Tumours Referred to a Specialist Centre

Department of Histopathology, Royal Marsden Hospital, London SW3 6JJ, UK

Received 4 January 2009; Accepted 19 April 2009

Academic Editor: Jay Wunder

Copyright © 2009 Khin Thway and Cyril Fisher. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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