+ General Considerations

  • Benign and malignant variants arising from mucin-producing altered fibroblasts
  • Mucin in the intercellular matrix is used to differentiate myxosarcoma from fibrosarcoma as both are fibroblastic in origin
  • No breed, sex, or site predilection
  • Infiltrative growth with no definite margin

MYXOMA AND MYXOSARCOMA