Journal of Diagnostics Concepts & Practice ›› 2017, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (03): 301-305.doi: 10.16150/j.1671-2870.2017.03.014

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Primary rhabdomyosarcoma in adults: clinicopathological characteristics, CT and MRI findings

TANG Wen1, REN Gang1, CAI Rong2, HE Wenguang1, NI Jing1, CHEN Jian1   

  1. 1. Department of Radiology, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, China;
    2. Department of Radiotherapy, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
  • Received:2017-02-21 Online:2017-06-25 Published:2017-06-25

Abstract: Objective: To investigate the clinicopathological characteristics, CT and MRI findings of primary rhabdomyosarcoma(RMS)in adults. Methods: Four adult patients with pathologically confirmed RMS admitted to Xinhua Hospital from 2012 to 2016 were enrolled. Results: Two patients had lesions located in head and neck, the other two in anterior chest wall and in pelvic cavity, respectively. RMS tended to be a heterogeneous soft-tissue mass with compression or invasion to surrounding tissue on non-enhanced CT image, which showed heterogeneous enhancement even with strong contrast enhancement in contrast-enhanced CT image. No fat and calcification components were found in all the 4 cases. MR imaging appearance of rhabdomyosarcoma was isointense or minimally hyperintensity in relative to muscle on T1-weighted images and hyperintensity on T2-weighted images. Conclusions: Adult primary rhabdomyosarcoma is rare, which has certain characteristic findings on CT and MRI image. Combined findings on imaging and clinical manifestations, the accuracy of diagnosis could be improved.

Key words: Adult primary rhabdomyosarcoma, Computer tomography, Magnetic resonance imaging

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