rhabdomyoma

Call a genetic specialist if your child is diagnosed with cardiac rhabdomyoma.

Only rare cases of possible malignant change have been reported in fetal rhabdomyoma.

A rhabdomyoma is a benign tumor of striated muscle.

Fetal rhabdomyoma are separated into two histologic types: Myxoid and cellular.

It is important to separate hiberoma from adult rhabdomyoma, a granular cell tumor and a true liposarcoma.

Tongue swelling occurs with Down syndrome, acromegaly, myxedema, amyloidosis, rhabdomyoma, and other disorders.

A cardiac rhabdomyoma can be discovered using echocardiography in approximately 50% of people with TSC.

An echocardiogram in infants (rhabdomyoma).

Heart tumors (rhabdomyoma)

Rhabdomyoma is a benign mesenchymal tumor of skeletal muscle, separated into two major categories based on site: Cardiac and extracardiac.

Prenatal ultrasound, performed by an obstetric sonographer specializing in cardiology, can detect a rhabdomyoma after 20 weeks.

German pathologist Rudolf Virchow published a three-volume work on tumours that described a child with cerebral tuberous sclerosis and rhabdomyoma of the heart.

Mr. Snell said an investigation he undertook found 23 children living within 10 miles of the laboratory with the same type of cancer, rhabdomyoma sarcoma, which attacks muscle tissue.

Bader RS, Chitayat D, Kelly E, et al.: Fetal rhabdomyoma: prenatal diagnosis, clinical outcome, and incidence of associated tuberous sclerosis complex.

DiSanto S, Abt AB, Boal DK, et al.: Fetal rhabdomyoma and nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome.