Abstract: We report eight cases of malignant lymphoma presenting in soft tissue taken from the files of the Department of Pathology, Chinese PLA General hospital. All histological types were diffuse non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, ofthese, lymphob-Iasticl, type lymphocyte-plasmacytoidt, non-cleaved typel, cleaved type 3 and mixed 2 six cases involved in skeletal muscle and two cases in subcutanous connective tissue. Follow-up data of three cases was obtained, two cases died 6years and 11 years after operations respectively and one case is alive well without tumor.