Cartilage tumors in soft tissues, particularly in the hand and foot

Abstract

I and chondroid tumors recently, we found 16 instances of such tumors in soft tissues without any concomitant involvement of adjacent bone. Most of the specimens had been submitted for opinion by pathologists who were uncertain whether these tumors were benign or malignant and, collaterally, how they should be treated. Several had developed in synovial or bursa1 structures, notably in