title: [Preliminary elaboration of diagnostic methods for rhabdomyosarcoma in children].
abstract: The material basic for this paper consists of 24 children with soft tissue tumors, aged 1-16 years which were diagnosed in the Clinical Department of Child Oncology of the Institute of Mother and Child Warsaw. The diagnostic methods included: interview, physical examination, radiological examination (including CT), bone marrow punction histological investigation by means of fine needle punction and/or biopsy. These methods were sufficient in making a precise diagnosis and staging. The most frequent was stage III (16 cases). It comes from a fact of late diagnosis caused by non characteristic clinical picture. All common localisation was represented in this group (stage III including a cases of causel localisation in the heart.
mesh_terms: D000008:Abdominal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000293:Adolescent; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010808:Physical Examination; D012208:Rhabdomyosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Wstepne opracowanie metod diagnostycznych w rhabdomyosarcoma u dzieci.