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Pulmonary rhabdomyosarcoma with isolated small bowel metastasis: A report of a case with immunohistochemical and ultrastructural studies
Author(s) -
Avagnina Alejandra,
Elsner Boris,
de Marco Luis,
Bracco Angel N.,
Nazar Jorge,
Pavlovsky Hernan
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19840501)53:9<1948::aid-cncr2820530924>3.0.co;2-j
Subject(s) - medicine , rhabdomyosarcoma , metastasis , pathology , immunohistochemistry , pneumonectomy , lesion , cancer , lung cancer , sarcoma
A unique case of pulmonary rhabdomyosarcoma with an isolated, symptomatic small bowel metastasis is presented. The tumor affected the middle lobe, and was treated with a right pneumonectomy. Eleven months after the operation, an isolated small bowel metastasis, which produced intestinal obstruction, was resected. The patient is currently alive, 11 months after operation. The myogenous nature of the tumor was confirmed by the immunohistochemical demonstration of myoglobin in the pulmonary and enteric lesion by the ultrastructural findings of poorly developed sarcomeres.