Touch preparation of primary uterine pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma: report of a case with clinical cytopathologic features.
BACKGROUND
Primary pure uterine rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is an extremely rare tumor, and no cytopathologic characteristics of this tumor have been reported before.


METHODS
We report the clinicopathologic characteristics, including the cytopathologic findings of touch preparations, of a pleomorphic RMS in a postmenopausal woman.


CONCLUSIONS
Touch preparations of tumors are a useful diagnostic procedure for detecting sarcoma in a myomatous tumor, and periodic examination using magnetic resonance imaging is recommended for uterine myomatous tumors even in postmenopausal women.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, 377-2 Ohno-Higashi, Osakasayama, Osaka 589-8511, Japan. watanabe@med.kindai.ac.jp
Yoh
Y
Watanabe
Ayako
A
Ishizu
Taeko
T
Kataoka
Hidekatsu
H
Nakai
Takao
T
Sato
Hiroshi
H
Hoshiai
D003584:Cytological Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D012208:Rhabdomyosarcoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014110:Touch; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery