Almost one-third of patients undergoing omentectomy for peritoneal metastases had occult omental metastases, supporting routine omentectomy prior to cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic ...

A 67-year-old man in relatively good health presented to the ED with abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting.His medical history was significant for hypertension, and he underwent a diverting loop ...

Drug delivery systems can alter drug clearance from the peritoneal cavity and drug toxicity profiles. For example, IP injection of cisplatin-loaded polymeric microspheres (100–200 µm, which ...

The operation itself is a simple one. An epigastric incision is made just to the right of the midline through the abdominal wall, the peritoneal cavity is opened, and a portion of the omentum is ...

Evaluation of MS-selective implantation of cancer cells by GFP imaging To investigate the behavior of peritoneal free cancer cells, we employed GFP imaging. Figure 2 shows omental and mesenteric ...

On surgical exploration, 2 liters of bilious were present in the peritoneal cavity, but there was no pus. A few yellowish tubercles were present on the omentum.

Primary peritoneal cancer may elevate blood levels of the protein cancer antigen (CA) 125, but not always. “My CA 125 was normal,” Sobhani says, “yet I had cancer in other places in my body.” Elevated ...

Stromal fibroblasts promote peritoneal metastasis of ovarian cancer in vivo through activation of EGFR, and a TNFα-TGFα-EGFR interacting loop presents in the microenvironment of omental ...

In fact, of the 36 cancer types reviewed, women had higher death rates from only three: peritoneum, omentum and mesentery cancers; gall bladder cancer; and cancer of the anus, anal canal and ...