Rhabdomyosarcoma of the uterine body; Report of a five year cure case

Abstract

A case of rhabdomyosarcoma of uterine corpus was reported. Pure rhabdomyosarcoma of uterine body is a rare disease which is classified to pure heterologous sarcoma.
There were 50 cases of pure rhabdomyosarcoma of uterine body reported in the literatures. Among these 50 cases a few cases had achieved 5 year survivals. Our case is now living with N. E. D. after 5 years from initial treatment, and this is a very rare instance of this sarcoma.
The pathological and cytological specimens of this case revealed that there were many round or tape shaped or racket shaped rhabdomyoblasts in both of the specimens. Typical cross striations were seen in the malignant cells of elongated type in the pathological specimens. After careful observation, same striations could be found in the cytological specimens.