Left laryngopharyngeal rhabdomyoma: one case report / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

ABSTRACT

The male patient was 72 years old with 10-years hoarseness. Electronic laryngoscopy showed a great pink lobulated lesion at the left back of soft palate and lateral pharyngeal wall, close to the choanal region. Neck CT revealed irregular signal intensities of soft tissue at the left wall of nasopharynx, side wall and posterior wall of oropharynx and hypopharynx, bilateral submandibular and glottic region. The patient underwent operation treatment. Histopathology showed the mass was composed of identical mature rhabdomyoma cells, with scarce interstitial substance. The tumor cells was round, oval or polygonal with eosinophilic cytoplasmic granules, longitudinal grain or grain was occasionally found. Some tumor cells arranged in disorder with match structure. Pathological diagnosis was rhabdomyoma.