BACKGROUND Peritoneal dissemination of ovarian tumors is a major prognostic parameter in ovarian malignancies. Analysis of peritoneal washing cytology serves as a useful predictor of ovarian surface involvement and peritoneal metastasis even in the absence of clinical omental spread. The aim of the current study is to correlate peritoneal cytology with various histologic features of ovarian can...

Survival outcomes and prognostic indicators for gastric cancer patients with positive peritoneal wash cytology but no metastasis after radical gastrectomy

This study was designed to investigate the frequency of the association between colorectal cancer and peritoneal cytology as well as the impact of surgical resection on conversion of cytology from benign to malignant cells being present. Furthermore, increasingly frequent reports of port site recurrences with laparoscopic colectomy for limited stage colon carcinoma prompted us to evaluate the i...

PURPOSE To evaluate the prognostic impact of peritoneal washing cytology in patients with endometrial and ovarian cancers. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively identified 86 individuals with ovarian carcinomas, ovarian borderline tumors and endometrial adenocarcinomas. The patients had been treated at Shahid Sadoughi Hospital and Ramazanzadeh Radiotherapy Center, Yazd, Iran between 2004 a...

BACKGROUND Microscopic evaluation of cells washed from the peritoneal cavity during surgery for gynecologic tumors is used to detect subclinical intraperitoneal metastases from these tumors. The prognostic significance of this test, however, has been questioned. PURPOSE Stressing histologic correlation and pitfalls in interpretation, we previously reported that the sensitivity of intraoperati...

Zuna and Behrens (7) reported that peritoneal cytology was rarely positive in patients who otherwise had pathologic stage I disease. This rules out a meaningful role for peritoneal washings in terms of therapeutic decision making. Far more significant is the danger of false-positive interpretation (because a large number of benign conditions might be reported as positive cytology due to subopti...

INTRODUCTION Peritoneal washing cytology and imprint cytology of pelvic lymph nodes samples were used to evaluate the rapid cytologic detection of peritoneal and retroperitoneal spread of endometrial cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS We undertook a study on 194 endometrial cancer patients who underwent primary treatment in the Gynecologic Clinic, Democritus University of Thrace. All patients were...

Although peritoneal cytology has been used to determine pancreatic cancer staging for more than three decades, its prognostic significance in potentially resectable pancreatic cancer is inconclusive. We therefore conducted this meta-analysis to investigate the impact of peritoneal cytology status on the clinicopathological features and survival outcomes in potentially resectable pancreatic canc...

Abstract Aims AUGIS recommends staging laparoscopy in all gastric cancers and selected gastro-oesophageal junction (GOJ) cancers. We previously audited our practice of peritoneal cytology found that a cohort 158 consecutive patients, no tumours less than T3 with negative nodes had positive cytology, resulting change to selectively use patients T-stage 3 above or N+ disease. Our aim was assess t...