Sarcoma botryoides surgery

Overview
Sarcoma botryoides, also known as embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, is a type of rhabdomyosarcoma in the vagina of young girls, typically younger than 8. The name comes from the gross appearance of "grape bunches" (botryoid in Greek).

Surgery
The disease used to be uniformly fatal, with a 5-year survival rate between 10 to 35% (Piver and Rose, 1988). As a result, treatment was radical surgery. New multidrug chemotherapy regimens with or without radiation therapy are now used in combination with less radical surgery with good results, although outcome data are not yet available (Rotmensch and Yamada, 2003).