A case of adult rhabdomyoma is reported. The lesion is a rare benign tumor of skeletal muscle origin which occurs predominantly in the head and neck region. In the present case, the clinical diagnosis favored a benign salivary gland tumor. Histologically, the tumor was composed of large round, oval, and polygonal cells of varying size with abundant pale, eosinophilic, fine, granular cytoplasm w...

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Primary cardiac tumors are rare in childhood. The most common of these are rhabdomyomas. Considering that rhabdomyomas often show spontaneous regression, close follow-up may be sufficient in hemodynamically stable cases. However, hemodynamically significant cardiac rhabdomyomas confer a risk of morbidity and mortality. Herein, we report a newborn infant with multifocal cardiac rhabdomyomas trea...

Cardiac rhabdomyomas are extremely uncommon in the adult patient. We describe a previously healthy man who presented with ventricular arrhythmias resulting from a right ventricular, cardiac rhabdomyoma. Echocardiography, CT scanning, and MRI are recognized as useful diagnostic modalities for intracardiac lesions. Cardiac catheterization in our patient demonstrated the presence of a tumor blush....

1 MD. Pathologist; Erasto Gaertner Hospital, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. 2 PhD in Pathology; Preceptor of the Medical Residency at Erasto Gaertner Hospital, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. 3 MSc in Pathology; Pathologist at the Erasto Gaertner Hospital, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. 4 Medical Student; Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. 5 PhD in Pathology; Department Head Erasto Gaertne...

Cardiac tumors are uncommon in neonates and most of them are histologically benign. The most common cardiac tumor in neonates and infants is rhabdomyoma. Malignant cardiac tumors are considerably rarer, and rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the leading malignancy. To our knowledge, only one case of intrapericardial RMS was reported in the literature, in a seven-month-old baby. Here we present another n...