title: Pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma of the anterior abdominal wall following multimodality treatment for carcinoma of the rectum.
abstract: Postradiation sarcomas are rare, and the most commonly reported ones are malignant fibrous histiocytoma, osteosarcoma, angiosarcoma, fibrosarcoma, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, and high-grade pleomorphic sarcoma, not otherwise specified. There are a few case reports of postradiation rhabdomyosarcomas following treatment of retinoblastoma, breast cancer, endometrial adenocarcinoma, and Hodgkin's disease. Secondary neoplasms following radiation and surgical treatment of rectal adenocarcinomas have not been reported in the English literature. We report a case of pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma of the anterior abdominal wall following treatment of rectal carcinoma, and we review the literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Veena
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rajaram
authors.forename: D Ashley
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: Gerard M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Doherty
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liapis
authors.forename: Louis P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Dehner
mesh_terms: D034861:Abdominal Wall; D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000473:pathology*; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D012208:Rhabdomyosarcoma / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*