Pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma: report of a case

Abstract

The most common cervical cancer is squamous cell carcinoma, mesenchymal tumors of the cervix are uncommon, cervical sarcomas are malignant tumors that originate in the so-called connective tissue, which comes from the embryonic mesenchyme, are rare, constitute less than 1% of all malignant neoplasms of the cervix, cervical sarcomas are divided: rhabdomyosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, undifferentiated endocervical sarcoma, alveolar soft tissue sarcoma, Ewing sarcoma and liposarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma is a stromal neoplasm with skeletal muscle differentiation, being classified according to the WHO as embryonic, alveolar or pleomorphic, the latter occurs in postmenopausal women with main symptoms of vaginal bleeding, they are very rare malignant tumors of the female genital tract, incidence of less than 0.5/100,000 Due to the ineffectiveness of adjuvant therapy, the result remains deficient in the majority of reported cases.