Unusual site of an embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the mesenchymal hepatic pedicle |
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Authors: | Ferlicot S Quillard J Chardot C Caillou B Oberlin O Gauthier F Fabre M |
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Institution: | Anatomie et Cytologie Pathologiques, CHU de Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre. |
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Abstract: | Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma of children. Tumors arising in the extrahepatic biliary tree are extremely rare (less than 1% of cases). In this location, most are RMS of the botryoid type. We report a case of a 10-year-old child with embryonal RMS arising in the mesenchyma of the hepatic pedicle. Most tumor cells were large, round with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm. A few cells were small round or spindle-shaped. Tumor cells showed positive immunostaining for muscle markers: desmin and sarcomeric actin. Electron microscopy revealed 2 types of cells: some were undifferentiated and others showed striated muscle differentiation features. |
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