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Rare disease
Pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma with pulmonary tumour embolism
  1. Salman Abdulaziz1,
  2. Mohammed Geddawy2,
  3. Khalid Al Efraij3,
  4. Mouhamad Ghyath Jamil1
  1. 1Department of Adult Critical Care Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  2. 2Department of Anaesthesia, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  3. 3Department of Internal Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  1. Correspondence to Dr Salman Abdulaziz, dr-salman{at}hotmail.com

Summary

Pulmonary tumour embolism is a known complication of cancer disease. To date, pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma has been described once with this entity. We report a case of pulmonary tumour embolism diagnosed in the operation room after cardiac arrest of a 30-year-old male patient who had surgical amputation of his right upper limb due to recurrent sarcoma, mandating urgent and successful embolectomy.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2012-007163

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