Abstract
This report deals with an autopsy case of 4 years girl, succumbed to alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, originating in nasal cavity with wide spread metastases after radiation therapy.Biopsy specimen was removed three times from nasal cavity and cervical lymph node. Histological diagnosis were inadequate for diagnosis, nonepithelial malignant tumor and carcinoma simpex respectively.On section, metastases were found lungs, pancreas, liver, kindneys, spleen, heat, ovaries, thoracic vertebrae and cervial lymph nodes.Histologically, characteristic pseudo-alveolar pattern was manifest and distinctive longitudinal and cross striations was recognized in racket shaped cell of metastac tumor of lung.Brief differential diagnosis was attempted against the alveolar soft part sarcoma, malignant melanoma, undifferentiated adenocarcinoma, reticulum cell sarcoma, malignant hemangio-endothelioma and malignant synovioma.
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