An adolescent with rhabdomyosarcoma during pregnancy

Tumori. 2008 May-Jun;94(3):431-3. doi: 10.1177/030089160809400324.

Abstract

We report the case of a 15-year-old girl with a large gluteal and perineal rhabdomyosarcoma diagnosed at 24 weeks of pregnancy, whose management posed a great clinical dilemma for us. The patient refused to consider a therapeutic abortion, so we opted for a customized treatment with mild doses of chemotherapy administered weekly to control tumor growth while minimizing fetal and perinatal complications. After the delivery of a healthy female, we adopted a more intensive chemotherapy regimen plus irradiation. Despite an initially good response, the disease unfortunately progressed and the patient died of her disease.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Buttocks
  • Chemotherapy, Adjuvant
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lymphatic Metastasis
  • Perineum
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic* / drug therapy
  • Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic* / radiotherapy
  • Radiotherapy, Adjuvant
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma* / drug therapy
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma* / radiotherapy