01.09.2004 | Letter to the Editor
Epithelioid and rhabdoid rhabdomyosarcoma in an adult patient: a diagnostic pitfall
verfasst von:
Dimas Suárez-Vilela, Francisco Miguel Izquierdo-Garcia, Nieves Alonso-Orcajo
Erschienen in:
Virchows Archiv
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Ausgabe 3/2004
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Sir, adult rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) constitutes a very small fraction of soft tissue sarcomas, estimated between 2% and 5% [
1,
6]. These tumors present with different histological patterns [
1,
6], the epithelioid RMSs [
14] and the RMSs with rhabdoid cells being very uncommon [
5,
7,
9,
12,
13]. We report a case of RMS in an adult patient, which was composed of cells with rhabdoid and epithelioid features. The histological appearance of this tumor was very unusual, and it raises differential diagnoses with neoplasms of other histogenetic origins. …
