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F. PHINIZY CALHOUN, Jr., M.D.; ALGERNON B. REESE, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1942;27(3):558-578.

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It is well recognized by general pathologists that malignant tumors of definite myogenic origin may arise in different parts of the body—anywhere, indeed, that striated muscle exists. According to Jönsson, those arising in the skeletal musculature occur most commonly in the thigh, trunk and lower part of the leg, appear usually after the age of 40 and are invariably fatal.

The histologic features of these tumors, known variously by the terms rhabdomyoma, myoblastoma, malignant rhabdomyoblastoma, myoma malignum and rhabdomyosarcoma, have been described by many authors, including Montpellier, Roskin, Rakov, Cappell and Montgomery and others. Without going into the details of classification or into the theories of origin which have been propounded by various authors and on which there is yet no widespread agreement, it may be said that the striking histologic features of these tumors are pronounced polymorphism of the tumor cells, the presence of spindle cells tinctorially resembling . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ATLANTA, GA.; NEW YORK

From the Eye Institute of the Presbyterian Hospital.

Footnotes
Read at the Seventy-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Ophthalmological Society, Hot Springs, Va., May 30, 1941.

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