title: [Cutaneous rhabdomyosarcoma].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The occurrence of a rare alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma in a 16-year old girl seems worth of a case report.
  
  
  METHODS
  A large multinodular tumor developed on the buttocks and the external genitalia; systemic symptoms and metastases of lymph nodes and skin occurred very soon and the disease had a lethal outcome within 16 months. A temporary regression was observed after polychemotherapy with daunorubicine, vincritine and 5-fluoro-uracile.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In children the rhabdomyosarcoma is the most frequent sarcoma of soft tissues; the poor prognosis of the alveolar type is assessed by the case of this 16-year old girl; this tumor may progress as a systemic disease and present as a leukemia with rapid impairment of general health, enlargement of lymph nodes, cutaneous nodules and anemia.
authors.affiliation: Clinique Dermatologique, CHU Le Dantec, Dakar, Sénégal.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ndiaye
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Grosshans
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Dieng
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kane
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Develoux
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gentile
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jaubert
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D018232:Rhabdomyosarcoma, Alveolar / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy
vernacular_title: Rhabdomyosarcome cutané.