Rhabdomyosarcoma of the nasal cavity often begins as a polypoid growth and may easily be mistaken for nasal polyps. For this reason, it is important that polypoid growths in the nasal cavity occurring in childhood be biopsied. Weber (17) described the first case of rhabdomyosarcoma in 1854, in the tongue of a twenty-one-year-old man. It was excised but recurred. Pastore, Sahyoun, and Mandeville (11) reported a rhabdomyosarcoma of the maxillary antrum in a forty-six-year old Negro, treated by extensive surgery followed by irradiation, without recurrence after seven years. In the records of Memorial Hospital (New York) Stobbe and Dargeon (14) found 15 cases of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the head and neck in children and adolescents ranging from sixteen months to sixteen years of age. The orbit and region of the internal canthus were the site of the tumor in 4 cases, the tonsil and soft palate in 4 cases, the mastoid and internal ear in 2 cases, with the remaining 5 neoplasms distributed in the regions of...