A form of RHABDOMYOSARCOMA arising primarily in the head and neck, especially the orbit, of children below the age of 10. The cells are smaller than those of other rhabdomyosarcomas and are of two basic cell types: spindle cells and round cells. This cancer is highly sensitive to chemotherapy and has a high cure rate with multi-modality therapy. (From Holland et al., Cancer Medicine, 3d ed, p2188)|A poorly circumscribed morphologic variant of rhabdomyosarcoma. It is characterized by the presence of primitive skeletal muscle differentiation in any stage of myogenesis. There are three histologic types, spindle cell, botryoid and anaplastic. (Experimental Factor Ontology, EFO_0000437)
1 genes associated with the embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma phenotype by mapping known disease genes to disease phenotypes from the HPO Gene-Disease Associations dataset.
