title: Pharyngeal rhabdomyoma: an unusual presentation.
abstract: A case of pharyngeal rhabdomyoma is reported with the unusual presenting symptom of haemoptysis. After complete excision of the lesion, the(71-year-old) patient remained tumour-free until his death from heart disease 19 months later. Seven other published cases of pharyngeal rhabdomyoma are reviewed together with 27 other reported extracardiac adult rhabdomyomas which, with a single exception, occurred in the head and neck region.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010610:Pharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology