BOTRYOID SARCOMA OF THE INFANT VAGINA - A SOFT-TISSUE SARCOMA WITH A HIGH PROBABILITY OF CURE

Although rare, sarcoma botryoides of the vagina in infants is a highly aggressive soft tissue tumour. Former opinions suggesting exenterativ e surgery and radiation to improve the dismal outcome in these young c hildren, are outdated. Due to balanced therapies (topical tumourectomy , chemotherapy and radiation adjusted to tumour stage) cure of these s arcomas may be expected dependent on tumour stage, localisation and re sponse to chemotherapy. The rate of complete remissions has increased in recent years, We report on an eighteen-month old girl with complete remission of tumour stage IIA who had been treated according to the C WS 91 protocol. Diagnosis and treatment were performed in March 1994 a t the age of six months. We observed the patient in complete remission for 8 months (till September 1995).