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The Extremely Rare Hypopharyngeal Fetal Rhabdomyoma in an Adult

Extracardiac rhabdomyomas are rare benign tumors showing skeletal muscle differentiation. They can be divided into adult, fetal, and genital subtypes. Fetal rhabdomyomas are rarer than the adult subtype and although usually diagnosed at birth, the diagnosis is based on histology rather than patient...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Baraças, Catarina, Farinha, Mónica, Afonso, Luis P, Bacelar, Maria T
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8454463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34567910
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18096
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Sumario:Extracardiac rhabdomyomas are rare benign tumors showing skeletal muscle differentiation. They can be divided into adult, fetal, and genital subtypes. Fetal rhabdomyomas are rarer than the adult subtype and although usually diagnosed at birth, the diagnosis is based on histology rather than patient age. We present a rare case of a 25-year-old man with a cellular fetal (juvenile) rhabdomyoma, found in the postcricoid region of the hypopharynx.