title: Primary Pulmonary Rhabdomyosarcoma in a Child.
abstract: A 9-year-old female presented with fever, cough, and hemoptysis for a week. The chest skiagram and contrast-enhanced computerized tomography delineated a well-defined solid lesion localized to the superior segment of the right lower lobe with features of a congenital pulmonary airway malformation. The lesion was surgically managed with a segmentectomy and histopathology confirmed a contained pulmonary rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS). No other primary site of origin was evident, and a final diagnosis of "primary" pulmonary RMS was made. She received adjuvant chemotherapy and was disease free after 6 years of surveillance. The unique clinicoradiological features of the case are discussed and the sparse literature is reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Surgery, St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Raghunandan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Balaji
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Surgery, St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Prasanna
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Isha
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Garg
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Surgery, St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Kanishka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Das
keywords: Child; primary; pulmonary rhabdomyosarcoma