Gliomyosarcoma. Report of a case of rhabdomyosarcoma arising in a malignant glioma.
The development of sarcoma within a glioblastoma is a well recognised complication: in the majority of cases it is a fibro-sarcoma originating in the tissues of the proliferating hyperplastic blood vessels. In the case described here the tumour is a rhabdomyosarcoma, apparently derived from abnormal prolific vascular mesenchyme. Only one comparable example has been recorded previously.
D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005625:Frontal Lobe; D005910:Glioma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008875:Middle Aged; D012208:Rhabdomyosarcoma / Q000473:pathology*