BACKGROUND Peritoneal seeding after abdominal surgery is a well known route of metastasis in intra-abdominal solid tumours. Direct mechanical contamination, local peritoneal trauma and subsequent inflammation, postoperative immunosuppression, and laparoscopic surgery are the proposed predisposing factors for this type of metastasis. These factors probably result in enhanced adhesion or growth o...

Received 1/19/2010; revised 2/11/2010; accepted 2/23/2010. For correspondence and reprints contact: Yum-Kung Chu, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital. 201 Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 112, Taiwan. Tel: (886)2-28757374 ext. 7301, E-mail: [email protected] Omental cake refers to infiltration of the omental fat by material of soft-tissue density. Diffuse pe...

The goal of this short communication is to report the uncommon presence of intracellular amastigotes of Leishmania in peritoneal fluid of a dog with leishmaniasis from Alagoas State, Brazil. Physical examination of an adult male rottweiler suspected to be suffering of leishmaniasis revealed severe loss of weight, ascitis, splenomegaly, moderately enlarged lymph nodes, onychogryphosis, generaliz...

This clinical case report deals with a very rare case of the detection of Trypanosoma theileri in the peritoneal fluid of a seven-year-old eight month pregnant cross-bred cow in fourth parity showing frank peritonitis. Peritoneal tab cytology revealed chronic active peritonitis and the presence of polymorphic T. theileri organisms. The parasite was also occasionally detected in blood smears. Th...

Due to the advancement in laparoscopic surgery in gynecology, laparoscopic surgery of patients with gynecologic malignancy is widely used. A 69-year-old woman who had elevated serum level of CA-125 and malignant ascites was transferred from general surgery after laparoscopic peritoneal biopsy. She complained about 2.5 cm sized abdominal wall mass which developed only 1week after surgery. With t...

Combination chemotherapy consisting of systemic and intraperitoneal agents against peritoneal metastases from several types of cancer has shown promising results. We herein report a case in which combination therapy with intravenous and intraperitoneal paclitaxel with S-1 converted an unresectable pancreatic cancer with peritoneal metastases into a resectable one. The patient was a 65-year old ...

Background: Sarcomas rarely involve body cavity fluids, accounting for less than 5% of all malignant effusions. Most existing literature describes the cytomorphologic features sarcomas in setting fine-needle aspiration and/or touch preparations targeted tissue biopsies. The objective this study was to investigate morphologic spectrum displayed by metastatic fluid specimens. Methods: pathology d...