title: Fetal rhabdomyoma of the infratemporal fossa in children.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Fetal rhabdomyomas are very rare benign tumors with infrequent head and neck involvement. We present the first report of a case of a 3-year-old child with an infratemporal fossa location.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case study.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Given the volume of the tumor and its difficult-to-access location, medical treatment associating methotrexate and Velbé(R) was proposed, but was not effective on the tumor volume after four courses. Surgical intervention via a combined intraoral and preauricular temporal approach allowed monoblock excision. There were no postoperative complications.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Medical treatment was unsuccessful. Surgical excision controlled the lesion with no recurrence since surgery. The main differential diagnosis is rhabdomyosarcoma.
authors.affiliation: Inserm U-587, ENT and Head and Neck Surgery Department, Armand-Trousseau Hospital, Paris, France. nicolas.leboulanger@trs.aphp.fr
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Leboulanger
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Picard
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Roger
authors.forename: E N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Garabedian
mesh_terms: D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001706:Biopsy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020360:Neoadjuvant Therapy; D018233:Rhabdomyosarcoma, Embryonal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013703:Temporal Muscle / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D015050:Zygoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery