Computerized System for Staging Peritoneal Surface Malignancies

Laparoscopic staging of peritoneal surface malignancies.

BACKGROUND The Peritoneal Cancer Index (PCI) may be used in the intraoperative evaluation of peritoneal surface malignancies to estimate the feasibility of peritonectomy with intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy perfusion. Although radiologic imaging techniques detect liver and other distant metastases, they do not accurately image small cancer implants on small bowel and its mesentery, th...

Evolution of management in peritoneal surface malignancies.

Management of peritoneal surface malignancies has gradually evolved by the introduction of cytoreductive surgery in combination with intraperitoneal chemotherapy applications. Recently, peritoneal metastases of intraabdominal solid organ tumors and primary peritoneal malignancies such as peritoneal mesothelioma are being treated with this new approach. Selection criteria are important to reduce...

Staging of Genitourinary Malignancies:

Report on the 9th International Congress on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies

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...

Highlights from the 8th World Congress on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies

in which more than 571 delegates from 56 countries attended. This conference covered a variety of topics on peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) from gastric, colorectal, and ovarian cancers, as well as pseudomyxoma peritonei, malignant peritoneal mesothelioma, and abdominal sarcoma. PC experts across the world presented the most up-to-date results of their basic and translational studies as well as ...