What are Malignant Skeletal Muscle Tumors?

Malignant Skeletal Muscle Tumors
Rhabdomyoma. (a) Low power view of the rhabdomyoma (left) with adjacent hypercellular parathyroid (right). (b) Normal striated muscle intertwined with tumor cells. (c) High power view of rhabdomyoma; notice the eosinophilic granular cytoplasm with small eccentrically and centrally placed nuclei. Much of the cytoplasm is retracted from the cell membrane. (Hematoxylin-eosin, original magnification ×40 (a), original magnification ×100 (b), and original magnification ×400 (c).) A rare soft tissue tumor masquerading as a parathyroid adenoma in a patient with birt-hogg-dubé syndrome and multiple cervical endocrinopathies. Mikesell KV, Kulaylat AN, Donaldson KJ, Saunders BD, Crist HS - Case reports in pathology (2014). Not Altered. CC.

Malignant skeletal muscle tumors are those tumors that grow uncontrollably and spread locally and/or to distant sites. 

Malignant skeletal muscle tumors include: 

  • Rhabdomyosarcoma