Biliary Tract Rhabdomyosarcoma: A Challenging Diagnosis

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Fernanda de Oliveira Mota Natalia Dassi Ioná Grossman Flávio Augusto Vercillo Luisi Ricardo Antônio Bertacchi Uvo Eliana Maria Monteiro Caran

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Fernanda de Oliveira Mota
Pediatric Oncology, Grupo de Apoio ao Adolescente e à Criança com Câncer (IOP/GRAACC), Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). São Paulo, Brazil

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Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children. It is located mainly in the head and neck, extremities and trunk, rarely achieving the biliary tract (1%). The clinical presentation is characterized by obstructive jaundice, abdominal pain and palpable mass. The prognosis is favourable when being early diagnosed. The main differential diagnosis is the choledochal cyst. We bring a case report about a patient with biliary tract rhabdomyosarcoma, diagnosed and treated for 1 year as choledochal cyst, presenting obstructive jaundice for one year. A hepatic biopsy was done, showing hepatic fibrosis. He presented clinical worsening and was referred for liver transplant. An exploratory laparotomy was done before planning the transplant, which showed a biliary tract mass, followed by a biopsy. The anatomopathological result was RMS. Biliary tract RMS is a rare entity that should be included in the differential diagnosis of obstructive jaundice in children. Because of its similarity with choledochal cyst, pediatricians and surgeons should consider this hypothesis, for adequate investigation and treatment.

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Case Report and Review of the Literature

Publication history

Received: Fri 18, Mar 2022
Accepted: Tue 05, Apr 2022
Published: Thu 21, Apr 2022

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© 2023 Fernanda de Oliveira Mota. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.COR.2022.02.01