Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the biliary tree mimicking a choledochal cyst

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Year : 2007 | Volume : 3 | Issue : 1 | Page : 40-42

Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the biliary tree mimicking a choledochal cyst

Bhushan Nemade¹, Kaustav Talapatra¹, Tanuja Shet², Shripad Banavali³, Mary Ann Muckaden¹, Siddhartha Laskar¹
¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
² Department of Pathology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
³ Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India

Correspondence Address:
Siddhartha Laskar
Department of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Dr. Ernest Borges Road, Parel, Mumbai - 400 012
India

DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.31971

PMID: 17998719

Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS) of biliary tree is a rare type of mesenchymal neoplasm diagnosed at surgery or by preoperative liver biopsy. We present a one year eight months old child who mimicked a choledochal cyst and was eventually treated with surgery, chemotherapy with IRS IV protocol and adjuvant postoperative radiotherapy to surgical bed with 6 MV photons to a dose of 5040cGy in 28 fractions.

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