The outcome of patients with advanced stage rhabdomyosarcoma is extremely poor, with a disease-free survival of less than 20% at 3 years. Autologous bone marrow transplantation for patients with Clinical Group IV rhabdomyosarcoma may be an effective therapy. The bone marrow involvement diagnosed by light microscopy is 29% for patients with advanced disease. The present study was performed to te...

we report a 73-year-old woman with primary left atrial rhabdomyosarcoma and its 1h mr spectroscopy (mrs) findings. the tumor showed a 2.8 cm sized lesion in the posteroinferior atrial wall on mri. 1h mr spectra were acquired using a point-resolved spectroscopy (press) sequence with electrocardiographic (ecg) gating and respiratory motion. the use of 1h-mrs allowed the quantification of triglyce...

rhabdomyosarcoma encompasses a group of malignant myogenic neoplasms expressing a multitude of clinical and pathological diversities. it is the commonest soft tissue sarcoma of childhood but neonates are rarely affected. embryonal subtype is the most frequent. head-neck and genitourinary tracts are predominant sites, while trunk is considered among the unusual sites of rhabdomyosarcoma. herein ...

Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma comprises a rare highly malignant tumor presumed to be associated with skeletal muscle lineage in children. The hallmark of the majority of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is a chromosomal translocation that generates the PAX3-FOXO1 fusion protein, which is an oncogenic transcription factor responsible for the development of the malignant phenotype of this tumor. Alveolar rh...

Background: Rhabdomyosarcoma is a common malignancy in children. There are two major types of rhabdomyosarcomas, the embryonal and the alveolar, differing in cytogenetic and morphologic features. The alveolar type of rhabdomyosarcoma is frequently associated with chromosome translocation t(2, 13) and poor clinical prognosis. Pathogenesis of rhabdomyosarcoma remains obscure, and especially it oc...

Rhabdomyosarcoma is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children and young adults. Rhabdomyosarcomas are skeletal muscle-like tumours that typically arise in muscle beds, and express key myogenic regulatory factors. However, their developmental program remains blocked in the proliferative phase with cells unable to exit the cell cycle to fuse into myotubes. Recently, we uncovered a key role ...

Rhabdomyosarcoma, a malignancy showing features of skeletal muscle differentiation, is the most common soft tissue sarcoma of childhood. The identification of distinct clinical presentation patterns, histologic tumor types, and risk groups suggests that rhabdomyosarcoma is a collection of highly related sarcomas rather than a single entity. In an effort to understand this seemingly heterogeneou...

Rhabdomyosarcoma is the most common sarcoma in children and is difficult to treat if the primary tumor is nonresectable or if the disease presents with metastases. The function of the serine/threonine kinase Mirk was investigated in this cancer. Mirk has both growth arrest and survival functions in terminally differentiating skeletal myoblasts. Maintenance of Mirk growth arrest properties would...

Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common type of soft-tissue sarcoma seen in pediatric population, but it rarely located bladder. Treatment for RMS multifaceted, often involving a team specialists to ensure best outcome patient. The prognosis varies depending on and stage cancer as well age This study reports 8 cases bladder rhabdomyosarcoma that were treated at National Institute Oncology Rab...