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Skeletal Muscle Tumors

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Rhabdomyosarcomas are malignant soft tissue tumors showing skeletal muscle or rhabdomyoblastic differentiation. The WHO classifies rhabdomyosarcoma into four types as follows: embryonal, alveolar, pleomorphic, and spindle cell/sclerosing.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Heung Sik Kang MD

  2. Department of Radiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Sung Hwan Hong MD

  3. Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Ja-Young Choi MD & Hye Jin Yoo MD

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Kang, H.S., Hong, S.H., Choi, JY., Yoo, H.J. (2017). Skeletal Muscle Tumors. In: Oncologic Imaging: Soft Tissue Tumors. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-718-5_9

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