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  1. Other Soft Tissue Sarcoma
  2.  
  3. There are many types of sarcomas,  and any single one occurs very rarely.  Treatment
  4. varies from one patient to the next and can vary from simple surgical excision alone to
  5. extensive surgery and aggressive chemotherapy,  with and without radiation.  In general,
  6. staging and treatment are asimilar to rhabdomyosarcoma.  Treatment can be somewhat
  7. less aggressive for small,  completely excised tumors.
  8.  
  9. Type                                                       Most Common Location
  10. Fibrosarcomas                                         
  11.     Congenital                                            Extremity and trunk   
  12.     Adult form                                           Thigh and knee
  13. Nuerofibrosarcoma                                   Extremity,  back of abdomen,  trunk
  14. Synovial sarcoma                                     Around but not in joints
  15. Hemangiopericytoma                                 Head,  neck,  back of abdomen
  16. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma                   Extremity
  17. Liposarcoma                                            Extremity,  back of abdomen