[Botryoid rhabdomyosarcoma of the nasopharynx treated with chemotherapy only. Survival lasting more than ten years].
The progress of Rahbdomyosarcoma (RMS) of the nasopharynx succeed frequently as infiltrative and destructive form to the base of the skull, in which case its prognostic is worse as when localized somewhere else. We report the case of a RMS in a 4-year-old child. The tumour infiltrating the base of the skull (stage III), was treated with chemotherapy only because the neighbourhood of the sella turcica and the pituitary gland strongly forbids the appeal to radiotherapy, in order to avoid untoward side-effects on this gland and also upon the growth of the child. At present, 10 years after, he remains asymptomatic and free of the tumour. Computered tomography has probe to be the best way to study the site and the extent of this growth and even the control of course of treatment.
Gras Albert
J R
JR
Hospital General Universitario de Alicante.
Hurtado García
J F
JF
Talavera Sánchez
J
J
Marco
P
P
D002675:Child, Preschool; D004358:Drug Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D009305:Nasopharynx / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D012208:Rhabdomyosarcoma / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome