title: A complete remission of sclerosing rhabdomyosarcoma with multiple lung and bone metastases treated with multi-agent chemotherapy and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT): a case report.
abstract: A case of sclerosing rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) in a young adult with multiple lung and skip bone metastases is reported. Complete remission was achieved with this patient by treatment with multi-agent chemotherapy and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) based on the pathological diagnosis of RMS using a specimen obtained during an open biopsy at the first consultation. He is still alive and has been continuously disease free for 12 years after surgery. This is a very rare case with successful treatment using PBSCT for a sclerosing RMS that presented with multiple distant metastases at the first consultation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bone and Joint Surgery, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Shitsukawa, Toon, Ehime 791-0295, Japan. kenshi@m.ehime-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Kenshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakayama
authors.forename: Hisamichi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tauchi
authors.forename: Yoshifumi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sugawara
authors.forename: Teruki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kidani
authors.forename: Kiriko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tokuda
authors.forename: Tatsuhiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyazaki
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Haruyasu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamamoto