Initial presentation and recurrence of metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma as breast mass

Rhabdomyosarcoma rarely metastasizes to the breast. We report a case of a pediatric patient who initially presented with a right breast mass and pancytopenia, which was subsequently diagnosed as alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. Despite initial favorable response to chemotherapy, a new metastatic focus was...

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Ho V., Aminololama-Shakeri, Shadi, Zhang, Yanhong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27330647
http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v8i4.855
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description Rhabdomyosarcoma rarely metastasizes to the breast. We report a case of a pediatric patient who initially presented with a right breast mass and pancytopenia, which was subsequently diagnosed as alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. Despite initial favorable response to chemotherapy, a new metastatic focus was found in the contralateral breast 10 months later.
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spelling pubmed-48995492016-06-17 Initial presentation and recurrence of metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma as breast mass Nguyen, Ho V. Aminololama-Shakeri, Shadi Zhang, Yanhong Radiol Case Rep Article Rhabdomyosarcoma rarely metastasizes to the breast. We report a case of a pediatric patient who initially presented with a right breast mass and pancytopenia, which was subsequently diagnosed as alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. Despite initial favorable response to chemotherapy, a new metastatic focus was found in the contralateral breast 10 months later. Elsevier 2015-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4899549/ /pubmed/27330647 http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v8i4.855 Text en © 2013 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_full Initial presentation and recurrence of metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma as breast mass
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title_full_unstemmed Initial presentation and recurrence of metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma as breast mass
title_short Initial presentation and recurrence of metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma as breast mass
title_sort initial presentation and recurrence of metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma as breast mass
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899549/
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