Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences (Jun 2011)

Mixed-type paratesticular rhabdomyosarcoma—A case report

  • Hsiang-Ying Lee,
  • Chia-Chun Tsai,
  • Chun-Hsiung Huang,
  • Wei-Ming Li,
  • Hsin-Chih Yeh,
  • Wen-Jeng Wu,
  • Chii-Jye Wang,
  • Yii-Her Chou,
  • Chun-Chieh Wu,
  • 李香瑩,
  • 蔡嘉駿,
  • 黃俊雄,
  • 李威明,
  • 葉信志,
  • 吳文正,
  • 王起杰,
  • 周以和,
  • 吳俊杰

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kjms.2010.10.002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 6
pp. 239 – 241

Abstract

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Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue tumor of childhood; about 80% of cases occur before the age of 21 with the remaining 20% evenly spread throughout the remaining decades. A primary paratesticular site is considered to have a good prognosis in comparison with other RMS sites. Histologically, any subtype of RMS, including alveolar, pleomorphic, embryonal, and mixed type, may occur in the paratesticular region, but only a relatively small number of cases are mixed and this variant has a poor prognosis. We report a case of paratesticular RMS (mixed embryonal and alveolar type) in a 16-year-old boy.

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