Background: Many patients are not referred to centers specializing in the treatment of peritoneal malignancies. This survey evaluates Canadian physician attitudes toward the role of cytoreduction in treating colorectal carcinomatosis. Methods: A discrete-choice questionnaire containing a hypothetical scenario surveyed physician preferences for the management of colorectal carcinomatosis. Result...

Abstract Introduction The Peritoneal Carcinomatosis Index (PCI) is used for the selection of candidates cytoreductive surgery (CRS)+HIPEC and as a prognostic resectability. accuracy MDCT (Multidetector Computed Tomography) evaluated by analyzing degree correlation between preoperative PCIr surgical PCIs. Methods We conducted an observational, longitudinal, single-center retrospective study May ...

Peritoneal lymphomatosis is a rare manifestation of lymphoma, seen most frequently with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and it is important to be familiar with this condition, because early diagnosis directly affects the management of patients. This review illustrates the spectrum of imaging findings in peritoneal lymphomatosis, highlighting the use of positron emission tomography/computed tomography, sh...

HYPOTHESIS Certain clinicopathologic factors predict improved survival after cytoreductive surgery and intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy for peritoneal carcinomatosis. DESIGN Prospective clinical trial. SETTING Surgical oncology service at a university academic hospital. PATIENTS A population of 109 consecutive patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis treated between December 1991 ...

Ovarian cancer carries a significant mortality. Since symptoms tend to be minimal, the disease is often diagnosed when peritoneal metastases are already present. The standard of care in advanced ovarian cancer consists of platinum-based chemotherapy combined with cytoreductive surgery. Unfortunately, even after optimal cytoreduction and adjuvant chemotherapy, most patients with stage III diseas...

OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to determine the accuracy of MRI in the preoperative staging and classification of mucinous appendiceal neoplasms and to describe the MRI features that are useful for selecting patients for surgical resection. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-two patients underwent preoperative MRI including T1-weighted, T2-weighted, immediate gadolinium-enhanced, and dela...

Prostate cancer is the second most common cause of related death in males. The sites prostate metastases include bone and regional lymph nodes followed by lung, liver brain. Peritoneal metastasis without skeletal involvement extremely rare, with only a few cases reported literature. We present herein patient omental peritoneal carcinomatosis accompanied ascites but metastases. importance this c...

Introduction: Many advances have emerged in the management of peritoneal metastases ovarian cancer origin, widely known as most common gynaecological malignancy. This review is an update current algorithm carcinomatosis cancer, including screening methods, biomarkers and surgical techniques, effort to shed some light into this difficult treat Objective: To assess awareness epithelial (EOC) with...

PURPOSE Cytoreductive surgery combined with intraperitoneal chemotherapy has been established as the standard treatment for selected patients with peritoneal malignancy. The purpose of the study was the presentation of the 10- year experience with cytoreductive surgery and intraperitoneal chemotherapy in patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis of colorectal and appendiceal origin. METHODS Cli...