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Three Case Reports with Primary Presentation in the Ear and on the Neck

LUIZ ALBERTO FAGUNDES, M.D.; MOYSES CUTIN, M.D.; DECIO CASTRO, M.D.; PORTO ALEGRE, R.S.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1961;73(6):705-709.

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In 1950, Stobbe and Dargeon⁶ alerted otolaryngologists and pathologists about a rare group of tumors in the head and neck area occurring in early childhood and up through adolescence, which they called "embryonal rhabdomyosarcomas." Since then, a large series of 37 cases has been studied by Moore and Grossi.⁵ These authors stated that the embryonal rhabdomyosarcomas are radiosensitive in almost every instance. Areán and Marcial-Rojas¹ reported a case of a newborn infant with embryonal rhabdomyoscarcoma of the floor of the mouth. Blanchard and House² reported 2 cases with primary presentation in the ear. Of 39 cases of rhabdomyosarcomas reported by Horn and Enterline,³ there were 13 cases of the embryonal type, 7 of which involved the head and neck area. In Brazil, Luisi and Andrade⁴ have reported a partially differentiated rhabdomyosarcoma of the nasal cavity in a 12-year-old girl.

These tumors are rarely recognized . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BRAZIL

Instructor in Pathology, Faculty of Medicine (Dr. Fagundes); Head of the Otolaryngologic Department, Faculty of Medicine (Dr. Cutin); Attending Otolaryngologist of the Head and Neck Department, Cancer Service, Santa Casa (Dr. Castro).

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Submitted for publication Sept. 6, 1960.

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