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
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