It is generally agreed that the fibrositic syndrome is a connective-tissue reaction that is usually secondary to another underlying process. 12,13 Thus, we utilize the classification of "secondary ...

Undifferentiated connective tissue disease is characterized ... but who does not meet the existing classification criteria for a connective tissue ... Table 2 Proposed terms and definitions for ...

Other connective-tissue disorders. This heterogeneous group of 21 patients included 6 with rheumatoid arthritis, 4 with dermatomyositis, 3 with Sjögren's syndrome and 1 each with polyarteritis ...

Ravin Ratan, MD, MEd, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, explains the origins of soft tissue sarcomas within the body—which account for 1% of cancers in adult patients—how ...

Classification by tissue types. The international standard for the classification and nomenclature of histologies is the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Third Edition (ICD-O-3).