A 36-year-old man was admitted for persistent abdominal pain and weight loss. He had had significant exposure to asbestos, as he had been active in cleanup after the World Trade Center attack. A CT scan of his abdomen was initially read as peritoneal carcinomatosis without evidence of ascites. Infectious etiology was subsequently ruled out and diagnostic laparoscopy was performed for tissue dia...

Associated tumors of the ovary and the appendix are commonly found in cases of pseudomyxoma peritonei (PP); the origin of these tumors are a continually debated topic. Outside of the setting of PP, this finding is exceedingly rare and there are no documented reports of two primary processes causing carcinomatosis in the absence of PP. Here, we present a patient who underwent cytoreductive surge...

The 9 th International Congress on Per itoneal Sur face Malignancies, sponsored by the Peritoneal Surface Oncology Group International (PSOGI) and organized by the Netherlands Cancer Institute, was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from October 9 to 11, 2014, with over 650 delegates from 66 countries attending the meeting. With the central theme to summarize the global progresses in peritonea...

1 IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34298, France; INSERM, U896, Montpellier, F-34298, France; Université Montpellier1, Montpellier, F34298, France; CRLC Val d’Aurelle Paul Lamarque, Montpellier, F-34298, France; 2 CRLC Val d’Aurelle-Paul Lamarque, F-34298 Montpellier, France; 3 Service de Médecine Nucléaire, CHU de Nîmes, Nîmes F-30029, France; 4 Direct...

The current treatment of peritoneal surface malignancies (PSMs) is moving from a nihilistic approach, into a combined modality approach offering selected patients long-term survival. As primary PSM are rare, extrapolation of data from clinical trials of related disease is necessary to develop treatment guidelines. Secondary PSM are more common, and therefore, treatment guidelines should be deve...

Surgical resections, such as peritoneal stripping (peritonectomy) or full-thickness resection of the diaphragm (FTDR), are performed for disseminated diaphragmatic lesions in patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC). This article presents the anatomical steps of diaphragmatic surgery in order to avoid intraoperative and postoperative complications and to decrease the morbidity and mortality...

Colorectal cancer is highly metastatic even when the tumors are small. To disseminate, cells use a complex and multistage process known as the epithelial-mesenchymal transition, in which epithelial phenotype is transformed into mesenchymal phenotype. The objective of this study is to describe the epithelial-mesenchymal transition in terms of gene expression profile and somatic alterations in sa...

AIMS The prognosis of patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis from gastrointestinal malignancies is poor. The aim of this study was to analyse the results of multimodality treatment for peritoneal carcinomatosis of appendiceal carcinoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS From 07/95 to 01/00, 17 patients (13 males, 4 female, median age 58 years) underwent peritonectomy procedures in combination with intrap...

Peritoneal carcinomatosis describes cancer metastasis onto the surface of the peritoneum. It is frequently caused by ovarian and colorectal cancer. Once a tumor has penetrated the peritoneum, cancer cells disseminate into the abdominal cavity. Additionally, surgery can account for the spread of free tumor cells. Their subsequent adhesion to mesothelial cells (HMCs) initiates peritoneal carcinom...