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Soft tissue tumors are relatively common in the first year of life [1–17]. Soft tissues are the source of a wide variety of neoplasms and tumorlike conditions often presenting as a palpable mass (Tables 4.1 and 4.2). Excluding hemangiomas and lymphangiomas, they are the leading group of tumors in infants overall and are second in frequency to teratoma in the newborn [1]. Neoplasms of fibrous connective tissue (myofibroblastic) origin are the most prevalent [6–9, 12–15]. Approximately one third of all neonatal and infant soft tissue tumors are classified histologically as malignant. The major malignancies are fibrosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET), and rhabdoid tumor [3, 6, 8, 13, 15, 17] (Tables 4.1 and 4.2).

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