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Diagnostic Pathology BioMed Central Case Report Open Access Postauricular congenital alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma- a case report of an unusual entity 1 1 2 Mahesha Vankalakunti , Ashim Das* and Narasimhan KL Rao Address: 1Department of Histopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education Research, Chandigarh, India and 2Department of Pediatric surgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education Research, Chandigarh, India Email: Mahesha Vankalakunti - vkmahesh123@yahoo.co.in; Ashim Das* - ashim126@; Narasimhan KL Rao - klnrao@yahoo.co.in * Corresponding author Published: 17 October 2006 Received: 26 August 2006 Accepted: 17 October 2006 Diagnostic Pathology 2006, 1:37 doi:10.1186/1746-1596-1-37 This article is available from: /content/1/1/37 © 2006 Vankalakunti et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Congenital alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is an extremely uncommon and invariably fatal tumor with the current therapy. Less than 25% of patients present with evidence of cutaneous metastasis. Case presentation: We report a case of congenital alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma in an 18-month- old male who presented with a progressively i