PEDIATRICS Vol. 65 No. 6 June 1980, pp. 1131-1133
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Rhabdomyosarcoma of the Middle Ear: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Richard H. Schwartz MD1, Nasser Movassaghi MD1, and Edward D. Marion MD1

1 Microbiology Section, Research Foundation, and the Department of Hematology-Oncology, Children's Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia

A 3-year-old boy with inflammatory granulation tissue in the ear canal and typanometric evidence of middle-ear effusion was examined. Subsequently, rhabdomyosarcoma of the middle ear was diagnosed. The insidious, deceptive presentation of this common pediatric tumor in an uncommon location is discussed with indication that early diagnosis and aggressive multimodal antitumor therapy seems to be improving the hitherto gloomy prognosis for these highly lethal middle-ear neoplasms.

Submitted on August 13, 1979
Accepted on September 26, 1979