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- Title
Neonatal alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma with skin and brain metastases.
- Authors
Rodriguez-Galindo, Carlos; Hill, D. Ashley; Onyekwere, Onynye; Pin, Noel; Rao, Bhaskar N.; Hoffer, Fredric A.; Kun, Larry E.; Pappo, Alberto S.; Santana, Victor M.; Rodriguez-Galindo, C; Hill, D A; Onyekwere, O; Pin, N; Rao, B N; Hoffer, F A; Kun, L E; Pappo, A S; Santana, V M
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Approximately 5-10% of patients with rhabdomyosarcomas (RMS) are diagnosed during the first year of life, and their clinical characteristics have been well documented. However, because RMS rarely occurs during the neonatal period, little is known about neonatal RMS.<bold>Methods: </bold>Four patients with neonatal RMS were treated at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital between 1962 and 1999. The authors report the results of a review of these patients and of cases described in the literature. Clinical, radiologic, and pathologic features of these patients and their outcomes were evaluated.<bold>Results: </bold>One patient with embryonal RMS was treated successfully with a combination of systemic chemotherapy and local control measures. The other three patients had alveolar RMS. Two of them had multiple skin and subcutaneous metastatic nodules at the time of diagnosis and developed brain metastases early in their course. In one of these patients, the PAX3-FKHR fusion transcript was detected. Three other similar cases of neonatal alveolar RMS with metastases to the skin and brain have been reported in the literature.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>A distinct syndrome of neonatal RMS is described. This syndrome is characterized by alveolar histology, multiple skin and subcutaneous metastases, and fatal outcome as the result of early brain metastasis.
- Subjects
RESEARCH; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; RESEARCH methodology; RADIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION research; MEDICAL cooperation; SKIN tumors; BRAIN tumors; SOFT tissue tumors; COMPARATIVE studies; RESEARCH funding
- Publication
Cancer (0008543X), 2001, Vol 92, Issue 6, p1613
- ISSN
0008-543X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/1097-0142(20010915)92:6<1613::AID-CNCR1487>3.0.CO;2-N