title: Pediatric sclerosing rhabdomyosarcomas: a review.
abstract: Sclerosing RMS (SRMS) is a recently described subtype of RMS that has not yet been included in any of the classification systems for RMSs. We did pubmed search using keywords "sclerosing, and rhabdomyosarcomas" and included all pediatric cases (age ≤ 18 years) of SRMSs in this review. We also included our case of an eleven-year-old male child with skull base SRMS and discuss the clinical, histopathological, immunohistochemical, and genetic characteristics of these patients. Till now, only 20 pediatric cases of SRMSs have been described in the literature. Pediatric SRMS more commonly affects males at a mean age of 9 years. Extremeties and head/neck regions were most commonly affected. Follow-up details were available for 16 patients with mean follow-up of 25.3 months. Treatment failure rate was 43.75%. Overall amongst these 16 patients, 10 were alive without disease, 4 were alive with disease, and two died. Thus, overall and disease-free survival amongst these 16 patients were 87.5% and 62.5%, respectively. The literature regarding clinical behaviour and outcome of pediatric patients with SRMSs is patchy. Detailed molecular/genetic analysis and clinicopathological characterization with longer follow-ups of more cases may throw some light on this possibly new subtype of RMS.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India.
authors.forename: Amandeep
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India ; Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosciences Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India.
authors.forename: Manmohan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India.
authors.forename: Mehar C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India.
authors.forename: Sameer
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bakshi
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India.
authors.forename: Bhawani S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Sharma
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