Imaging features of SMARCA4-deficient thoracic sarcomas: a multi-centric study of 21 patients.
Amandine CrombéNicolas AlbertiNicolas VillardFrank PilleulXavier BuyFrançois Le LoarerMichèle KindPublished in: European radiology (2019)
• SMARCA4-DTS is a very aggressive poorly differentiated sarcoma with a predilection for young and middle-aged adult male smokers. • SMARCA4-DTS, which is mostly located in the chest cavity, can compress and infiltrate all adjacent organs leading to superior vena syndrome, lung atelectasis, epiduritis, spinal cord compression, and esophagus invasion. • SMARCA4-DTS typically demonstrates several ill-defined necrotic lymphadenopathies spreading in axillar, subclavian, cervical, mediastinum, and retroperitoneum.