title: Rhabdomyosarcoma of the breast: Report of two cases with the review of literature.
abstract: Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a common soft-tissue neoplasm in the pediatric age group. Common locations are head and neck, genitourinary areas, trunk, and extremities. Two pathologic variants of this malignancy are embryonal and alveolar. The involvement of breast is rare. Herein, we report two cases of alveolar RMS of the breast of which one is an isolated breast metastasis from an orbital primary, whereas the other is a primary RMS of the breast. Both the patients were treated with surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy and are currently disease free at six and three year respectively, following completion of treatment.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Nizamudheen M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Pareekutty
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bhagat
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Tushar
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vora
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Sajid S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Qureshi
keywords: Pediatric soft tissue sarcoma; pediatric tumors; rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS); rhabdomyosarcoma breast