A brief history and contemporary re-assessment of malignant fibrous histiocytoma: “fact or fancy”

There is a group of tumors which has been thought to include ‘histiocyte-like’, ‘fibroblast-like’and ‘myo-fibroblast-like’ cells that has been repeatedly expanded and collapsed over several decades as our methods of examining these tumors has advanced. In this review, we examine the history and present state of malignant fibrous histiocytoma.