Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the mastoid in an infant

Primary embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the kidney in an adult：A case report

Primary rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) of the kidney is a rare malignant mesenchymal tumor with an aggressive clinical course. Adult renal RMS is typically a pleomorphic histologic subtype and only a few cases have ever been reported. We herein present a new case of renal RMS of the embryonal histologic subtype in a 26-year-old woman.

Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the common bile duct and porta hepatis in an infant: A rare presentation.

Cardiac embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma in an adult.

A 58-year old man with worsening shortness of breath on exertion for 4 months came to our hospital. Echocardiography revealed an irregular mass measuring 57 mm × 37 mm in the left atrium and mild mitral regurgitation (Fig. 1). Palliative resection of the tumour was performed, and mitral regurgitation was left untreated. Histological diagnosis was embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (Fig. 2). Figure 1: T...

Orbital rhabdomyosarcoma in an infant.

A i-year-old male Hindu infant was brought to the Eye Out-patient department of Irwin Hospital, New Delhi, on December 14, I968, with a history of a swelling in the left orbit and protrusion of the eyeball for one month. According to his mother the swelling had first appeared in the lower nasal quadrant of the left orbit and rapidly progressed to the upper nasal quadrant and displaced the eyeba...

Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma occurring on mandibular gingiva in an adult.

An embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS) is a primitive, malignant, soft tissue sarcoma that recapitulates the phenotypic and biological features of embryonic skeletal muscles. Occurrence of intraoral ERMS in adults is extremely rare. This unique case report highlights the clinical, radiographic, histopathological and immunohistochemical findings of an intraoral ERMS.