09 December 2022
: Case report 
Pediatric Patient with Rhabdomyosarcoma Involving Temporal Bone: Case Report and Overview of Recent Cases
Challenging differential diagnosis, Management of emergency care, Patient complains / malpractice, Rare disease, Educational Purpose (only if useful for a systematic review or synthesis)
Khalid Suwayyid Alomar
1ABDEFG*, Rafeef Alhajress1F, Abdullah Saleh Alsheikh1ABEF, Reem Aljurayyad1ABCDEF, Abdulaziz Alballaa1ABEF, Maria Arafah2B
DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.937307
Am J Case Rep 2022; 23:e937307
Table 1. Review of all reported cases of temporal bone rhabdomyosarcoma in the English-language literature between 2000 and 2022.
| Author | Year | Age/sex | Presenting symptom | Management | Histopathology | Co-existing complications |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lee et al []12 | 2004 | 1.5 years/Male | Ear discharge, mastoid swelling | Incision and drainage | Embryonal RMS | 7 nerve dysfunction |
| Abbas and Awan []5 | 2005 | 3 years/Male | Ear pain, bleeding from the external auditory canal | Examination of ear under anesthesia and biopsy of middle ear mass | Embryonal RMS | 7 nerve dysfunction |
| Reid et al []13 | 2006 | 6 years/Female | Ear pain, headache | Myringotomy, biopsy of the right middle ear mass | Embryonal RMS | 7 and 12th nerve dysfunction, extension to cavernous sinus |
| Viswanatha []20 | 2007 | 4 years/Male | Ear discharge, inability to close his right eye | Radical mastoidectomy | Embryonal RMS | 6, 7 nerve dysfunction, parapharyngeal space involvement |
| Ragsdale et al []21 | 2009 | 12 years/Female | Ear mass | Excision, radiochemotherapy | Alveolar RMS | None |
| Crozier et al []22 | 2012 | 9 years/Male | Ear mass | Auriculectomy, temporal bone resection | Embryonal RMS | None |
| Ng and Goh []23 | 2016 | 15 months/Female | Ear discharge, mastoid swelling | Cortical mastoidectomy with abscess drainage | Embryonal RMS | 7 nerve dysfunction |
| Goldberg []24 | 2016 | 10 years/Male | Ear discharge, dizziness | Mastoidectomy and biopsy | Embryonal RMS | 7 nerve dysfunction |
| Do et al []25 | 2018 | 3 years/Male | Headache, vomiting | Mastoidectomy, retrosigmoid craniectomy with biopsy | Embryonal RMS | Papilledema |
| Bhandarkar et al []18 | 2020 | 5 years/Female | Ear discharge | Biopsy | Embryonal RMS | 7 nerve dysfunction, internal jugular vein and sigmoid sinus thrombosis |
| Zubir et al []17 | 2021 | 2 years/Male | Ear discharge, facial asymmetry | Biopsy | Embryonal RMS | 7 nerve dysfunction |
| Present case | 2022 | 2 years/Male | Ear mass, ear discharge | Mastoidectomy, biopsy | Embryonal RMS | None |
| RMS – rhabdomyosarcoma. | ||||||