Diagnosis: Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma.
Comments:
This is the most
frequent sarcoma in paratesticular location in
children. In adults the most frequent sarcoma is liposarcoma and the
second leiomyosarcoma.
Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma shows primitive cells with small round to
oval
hyperchromatic cells or spindle cells alternating cellular and less
cellular
areas. Round cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm are more differentiated
cells
(rhabdomyoblasts) seen in Figs. 3 and 4. The tumor showed strong
positivity for
desmin (Fig. 5A), HHF35 (Fig. 5B) and myoglobin. Paratesticular
rhabdomyosarcoma
has significantly better prognosis than tumors in other locations of
the genitourinary
tract. The prognosis is better in children less than 10 years of age
and less
than 5 cm in diameter. |