Primary Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma of the Breast in an Adult: An Extremely Rare Case

Table 1

Cases of primary RMS of the breast in adults: a summary of clinical data.

Reference	Age	Site	Subtype	Size (cm)	LN	Surgical procedure	Other treatment	Prognosis
Italiano, Largillier et al. 2005 [1]	46	Unknown	Embryonal	3.5	NI	Quadrantectomy	CTx, RTx	NED 18 mo
Evans, 1953 [3]	41	Left	Pleomorphic	12	NI	MRM	NI	48 mo
Sailer, 1937 [9]	38	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	“Local removal of the tumor”	Unknown	“shortly afterwards”
Attili, Dadhich et al. 2007 [2]	40	Right	Embryonal	4	+	MRM	CTx	NED 12 mo
Rasinariu, Andreiuolo et al. 2011 [12]	58	Left	Spindle cell	11	NI	Mastectomy	NI	NI
Li, Zhou et al. 2012 [13]	30	Right, then left	Alveolar	2.5	+	MRM	Neo CTx	DOD 29 mo
Bhosale, Kshirsagar et al. 2013 [14]	60	Left	NI	8	+	MRM	CTx	NED 6 mo
Mondal, Mandal et al. 2014 [15]	49	Right	Pleomorphic	7	-	MRM	None	NED 12 mo
Yuan, Hou et al. 2017 [16]	34	Left	NI	3.5	NI	Mastectomy	CTx	NED 23 mo
Trihia et al. 2019 (current)	60	Left	Alveolar	4.8	SLN-	Mastectomy	CTx	NED 24 mo

DOD: died of disease; NED: no evidence of disease; mo: months; NI: not indicated; CTx: chemotherapy; RTx: radiotherapy; MRM: modified radical mastectomy; LN: lymph node status; SLN: sentinel lymph node.