The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics 2008 , Vol 50 , Num 2
A newborn infant with intrapericardial rhabdomyosarcoma: a case report
1Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology, Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey
2Department of Pediatrics, Cardiology, Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey
3Department of Pathology, Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey
4Department of Pediatrics, Oncology, Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey
Tutak E, Satar M, Özbarlas N, Uğuz A, Yapıcıoğlu H, Narlı N, Bayram İ. A newborn infant with intrapericardial rhabdomyosarcoma: a case report. Turk J Pediatr 2008; 50: 179-181.

Cardiac tumors are uncommon in neonates and most of them are histologically benign. The most common cardiac tumor in neonates and infants is rhabdomyoma. Malignant cardiac tumors are considerably rarer, and rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the leading malignancy.

To our knowledge, only one case of intrapericardial RMS was reported in the literature, in a seven-month-old baby. Here we present another newborn baby with intrapericardial RMS. Keywords : rhabdomyosarcoma, pericardium, newborn

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