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rhabdomyosarcoma
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rhabdomyosarcoma [¦rab·dō‚mī·ō·sär′kō·mə]
(medicine)
A malignant tumor of skeletal muscle in the extremities composed of anaplastic muscle cells. Also known as malignant rhabdomyoma; rhabdomyoblastoma.
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Rhabdomyosarcomas are malignant tumors of skeletal muscle.
Sarcoma Muscle Cancer by Julia Elorriaga / Health, general community
1,2) The first was reported in 1992 by Freije et al, who described three parapharyngeal-space muscle tumors; two were rhabdomyosarcomas and one was a leiomysarcoma.
Smooth-muscle tumor of the parapharyngeal space by Avitia, Sofia; Hamilton, Jason; Osborne, Ryan F. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
Several genetic changes are shared with other embryonal tumors, such as loss of heterozygosity at chromosome 11p15, also described in rhabdomyosarcomas and Wilms tumors.
Protocol for the examination of specimens from pediatric patients ... by Finegold, Milton J.; Lopez-Terrada, Dolores H.; Bowen, Jay; Washington, Mary Kay; Qualman, Stephen J / Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
 
 
 
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