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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1975;18(2):135-139. Published online February 28, 1975.

A Case of Sarcoma Botryoides

Heun Young Moon¹, Min Ann¹, Won Chull Kim¹, Young Ho Yang², Jung Sil Cho³

¹Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
²Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
³Department of Pathology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

Sarcoma Botryoides is defined as a juvenile variant of mesenchymal sarcoma of the urogenital tract, almostly vagina. It is very rare polypoid grapelike malignant neoplasm of mesenchymal origin in infants and children. In Korea, 5 cases were reported before this report. A case of Sarcoma Botryoides of Korean female of 3yr and 10 month old was admitted due to protruding mass from vagina, since 8 month ago. The mass had steadily inceased in size and on admission was about 4X4X4cm. It had an irregular cauliflower like surface, filling vagina compltely. Therefere she had complained high fever, dysuria, purulent vaginal disharge with foul order. We did hiopsy from the mass, which was comfirmed Sarcoma Botryoides on pathologic finding, and reviewed literature briefly with presentation of clinical course of this case.

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