• Valentin Titus Grigorean, Radu Serescu, Andrei Anica, Violeta Elena Coman, Ştefan Iulian Bedereag, Roxana Corina Sfetea, Mircea Liţescu, Iancu Emil Pleşea, Costin George Florea, Cosmin Burleanu, Anwar Erchid, and Ionuţ Simion Coman.
• Discipline of General Surgery, "Bagdasar-Arseni" Clinical Emergency Hospital, 10th Clinical Department-General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 37 Dionisie Lupu Street, 020021 Bucharest, Romania.
• Medicina (Kaunas). 2023 Aug 23; 59 (9).

AbstractRhabdomyosarcoma is a rare tumor that is diagnosed mostly in children and adolescents, rarely in adults, representing 2-5% of all soft tissue sarcomas. It has four subtypes that are recognized: embryonal (50%), alveolar (20%), pleomorphic (20%), and spindle cell/sclerosing (10%). The diagnosis of rhabdomyosarcoma is based on the histological detection of rhabdomyoblasts and the expression of muscle-related biomarkers. Spindle cell/sclerosing rhabdomyosarcoma consists morphologically of fusiform cells with vesicular chromatin arranged in a storiform pattern or long fascicles, with occasional rhabdomyoblasts. Also, dense, collagenous, sclerotic stroma may be seen more commonly in adults. We present a rare case of an adult who presented to the hospital with a tumor in the left inguinal area, was first diagnosed with a left strangulated inguinal hernia and was operated on as an emergency, although the diagnosis was ultimately a spindle cell rhabdomyosarcoma of the inguinal region.

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