title: Adult rhabdomyoma of soft palate.
abstract: A case of adult rhabdomyoma of the soft palate in a 60-year-old man studied by methods including electron microscopy, is reported. The patient was free of recurrence 2 years later. The eleven previously documented cases of adult rhabdomyoma involving the oral cavity are reviewed. The concept that rhabdomyoma is a neoplasm rather than a hamartoma is favored. Adequate local excision appears to be curative. The differences between the cardiac and extracardiac forms of rhabdomyoma as well as between adult rhabdomyoma and especially granular-cell myoblastoma and fetal rhabdomyoma are presented.
mesh_terms: D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010157:Palatal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D010160:Palate, Soft; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure