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Sarcoma de tecidos moles

Última revisão: 24 Mar 2025
Última atualização: 06 Dec 2024

Resumo

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • massa
  • hemorragia digestiva alta/baixa
  • dor neuropática
  • aumento da circunferência abdominal
  • características de abdome agudo
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Other diagnostic factors

  • edema de membros unilateral
  • perda de peso
  • fadiga
  • anorexia
  • distensão abdominal, desconforto e dor
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Risk factors

  • síndromes geneticamente hereditárias
  • radiação
  • infecção por herpes-vírus humano tipo 8 (HHV-8)
  • doenças congênitas
  • sexo masculino
  • linfedema
  • história de exposição a carcinógenos químicos
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Diagnostic investigations

1st investigations to order

  • tomografia computadorizada (TC) do tumor primário
  • ressonância nuclear magnética (RNM) do tumor primário
  • TC do tórax
  • biópsia para histologia
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Investigations to consider

  • tomografia computadorizada abdominal/pélvica
  • ressonância nuclear magnética (RNM) da coluna vertebral total
  • tomografia por emissão de pósitrons com fluordesoxiglucose/tomografia computadorizada (FDG-PET-CT)
  • endoscopia
  • hemograma completo
  • exames de coagulação
  • ureia
  • creatinina
  • testes da função hepática
  • ecocardiograma ou angiografia sincronizada multinuclear (MUGA)
  • técnicas auxiliares
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

membro: estádio I

membro: estádio II, ressecável

membro: estádio III ou estádio IV selecionado (qualquer T, N1, M0), ressecável

membro: estádio III ou estádio IV selecionado (qualquer T, N1, M0), irressecável

membro: estádio IV, oligometástases com volume tumoral limitado ou linfonodos regionais

membro: estádio IV, metástases disseminadas

membro: recorrente

retroperitoneal/intra-abdominal: ressecável (primário ou recorrente)

retroperitoneal/intra-abdominal: irressecável

retroperitoneal/intra-abdominal: doença metastática, órgão único e volume tumoral limitado passível de terapia local

retroperitoneal/intra-abdominal: metástases disseminadas

tumor estromal gastrointestinal: ressecável com morbidade mínima

tumor estromal gastrointestinal: ressecável com morbidade significativa

tumor estromal gastrointestinal: irressecável

tumor estromal gastrointestinal: progressivo

tumor estromal gastrointestinal: recorrente ou metastático

Contributors

Authors

James S. Hu, MD, FACP

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center

Los Angeles

CA

Disclosures

JSH declares that he has no competing interests.

Sant P. Chawla, MD, FRACP

Director

Sarcoma Oncology Center

Santa Monica

CA

Disclosures

SPC owns stock in AADi, Cellestia Biotech, CounterPoint, and Immix BioPharma, and has received grants, consulting fees, payments of honoraria, and payment from speakers bureau for Amgen, Roche, GSK, Threshold Pharmaceuticals, CytRx Corporation, Ignyta, Immune Design, TRACON Pharma, Karyopharm Therapeutics, Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration (SARC), Janssen, Advenchen Laboratories, Bayer, Inhibrx, NKMax, and Thyme.

Acknowledgements

Dr James S. Hu and Dr Sant P. Chawla would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Swati Sikaria, Dr Jonathan C. Trent, Dr Saira Hassan, and Dr David Thomas, previous contributors to this topic.

Disclosures

SS, JCT and SH each declare that they have no competing interests. DT has received research support from Pfizer, Amgen, and Novartis.

Peer reviewers

Richard F. Riedel, MD

Professor of Medicine

Duke University

Durham

NC

Disclosures

RFR owns shares in Limbguard, has received institutional clinical research support from AADi, Adaptimmune, AROG, Ayala, BioAtla, Blueprint, Cogent, Daiichi-Sankyo, Deciphera, GlaxoSmithKline, InhibRx, NanoCarrier, Oncternal, PTC Therapeutics, SARC, SpringWorks, Tracon, and Trillium. He has been a consultant/advisor for AADi, Adaptimmune, Bayer, Blueprint, Boehringer Ingelheim, Daiichi-Sankyo, Deciphera, GlaxoSmithKline, NanoCarrier, SpringWorks and has received funding for travel from Deciphera.

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