chondromyxosarcoma

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chondromyxosarcoma (plural chondromyxosarcomas or chondromyxosarcomata)

(biology, medicine) A rare type of bone tumor with chondromatous, myxomatous, and sarcomatous features demonstrable on histopathology; it has been reported in various body parts.
- 1927, Joseph Colt Bloodgood, “Central sarcoma of bone: is there a central fibroma or fibrosarcoma and how can it be differentiated from osteitis fibrosa?”, in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery‎^[1], volume 9, number 2, page 217:
  The only type of central sarcoma is chondromyxosarcoma, which should be easily distinguished from the giant-cell tumor and osteitis fibrosa, and the very rare bone aneurysm which can be differentiated from the hemorrhagic giant-cell tumor in the frozen section.