A connective tissue neoplasm or connective tissue tumor is a neoplasm arising from the tissues of the

connective tissue Connective tissue is one of the four primary types of animal tissue, along with epithelial tissue, muscle tissue, and nervous tissue. It develops from the mesenchyme derived from the mesoderm the middle embryonic germ layer. Connective tiss ...

. (Not all tumors ''in'' the connective tissue are ''of'' the connective tissue.)

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{{neoplasm-stub Anatomical pathology Tissues (biology) Connective and soft tissue neoplasms