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Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery > Volume 24(4); 1981 > Article
Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 1981;24(4): 699-703.
A Case of Pleomorphic Rhabdomyosarcoma of the Left Maxillary Sinus
Yun Kyu Lim, MD, and Jung Chang Rhee, MD
Department of Otolaryngology, Fatima, Hospital, Taegu, Korea
左側上顎洞에 發生한 多樣한 橫紋筋 肉腫의 1例
임윤규 · 이정창
大邱파티마병원 耳鼻咽喉科
ABSTRACT

Rhabdomyosarcoma has been rarely reported in literature since 1854, when C.O. Weber described it occurred at tongue. It is highly malignant tumor of striated muscle with rapid progression and high incidence of recurrence. Horn, R.C. and Enterline, H.T. offered classification of rhabdomyosarcoma according to arrangement which is recently accepted it is as follows 1, pleomorphic type, 2, alreolar type, 3, embryonal type, 4, botryoid type, The favorite sites of this tumor are in order of head and neck, genitourinary tract and both extremities. Author has experienced a case of rhabdomyosarcoma of the pleomorphic type involving the left maxillery sinus, orbital floor and ethmoidal region in 60 years old male. We tried to treat the patient with total maxillectomy, exenteration of orbit and ethmoidal sinus and postoperative chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide 100mg I.V. the 77 days, and then authors recommened postoporative radiation. The authors were reporting a rare case of 60 years old male with plemorphic Rhabdomyosarcoma involving the left maxillary sinus.

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