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C Scarabelli

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[Second surgery in the management of ovarian cancer].

The aim of this study was to evaluate the value of second surgery in the combined and multidisciplinary treatment of mullerian ovarian cancer. A retrospective study was carried out in 86 consecutive patients with advances stages of mullerian ovarian cancer (stage 3-4) referred to the Division of Gynecological Surgical Oncology of the Oncological Reference Centre at Aviano for continuation of treatment following initial surgery and chemotherapy performed in various peripheral institutions. Second surgery only revealed 11.6% of complete endocelomatic pathological responses (10 patients) to earlier treatments; among the 76 patients with persistent disease it was possible to achieve optimal redebulking in 50 (65.8%) (31 R0 and 19 R1 after second surgery), whereas it was not possible to perform adequate second surgery in 26 (34.2%). The impact of second surgery on the probability of survival (mean survival rate) was highly significant in the 50 patients in whom it was possible to perform adequate second surgery compared to the non-operated group (14.34 months versus 6.10, chi square = 12.671, p = 0.0004). The authors underline both the prognostic value of lymph node status with increased mortality among patients with positive retro-peritoneal lymph nodes (LN+), and the value of retroperitoneal re-evaluation in predicting endo-peritoneal recidivation in patients with free abdomen who subsequently relapsed.

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[Infusion pre-hydration and a humid room in the prevention of postoperative adhesions].

The Authors after an overview on the most important causes of postsurgical adhesions, drove their attention to the tissue injury determined, during abdominal surgery, by exposure of pelvic serosa to the humidity of operating area. The AA tested body temperature in the Douglas pouch and under the liver on 30 patients who were operated by conservative surgery (myomectomy) and on 8 patient who underwent laparoscopy. A decrease of one degree in the Douglas pouch after one hour on the patient who had a Pfannestiel incision has been detected. While on the patients with longitudinal laparotomy no difference was evidenced. Serosal biopsies done at the beginning of surgery after pelvis exposure to the external conditions (temperature, humidity) showed a marked phlogosis in the tissue of the patients not treated at all. These tissue injuries were almost absent in the group treated with saline tissue irrigation and absent in the group that had parenteral prehydration, too. The AA suggested the use of the two techniques in conservative surgery in order to obtain in the open abdomen surgery results similar to those of the endoscopic one.

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[Splenectomy in cytoreductive surgery in ovarian cancer].

During the course of surgery for the treatment of ovarian cancer, splenectomy is rarely performed since this tumour rarely infiltrates the parenchyma although it spreads around the spleen. Surgery is significant if surgical efforts successfully reduce tumour volume to less than one centimetre in diameter. Perisplenic involvement is frequent, even if not always massive and infiltrating, in relation both to biological aggressiveness and clinical and instrumental diagnostic delay. Between January '81 and December '91 a total of 16 splenectomies were performed during the course of surgery relating to 311 (5.1%) patients suffering from mullerian ovarian carcinoma at the 3rd and 4th stage. Of these, 7 were performed during the first operation and 9 during the course of a second-look. The mean age of patients was 56 with a range of 33-71 years. Massive hilar infiltration was found in 14 cases, in 7 together with contemporary capsular infiltration. Parenchymal infiltration was present in 3 cases; one splenectomy was performed following an iatrogenic complication during the mobilization of the left colic flexure, necessary for the creation of the colon-rectal anastomosis. Splenectomy was always well tolerated in an overall assessment of surgery and was without severe local complications. The most frequent complications were pleural (7/16) with reactive effusion and bronchopulmonary with basal dystelectasia (3 cases) and bronchopneumonic foci (4 cases). A silent hematoma in a splenic site was revealed using ultrasonography in 3 cases but resolved spontaneously without requiring drainage.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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[Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) in upper gastrointestinal tract occlusion in gynecologic oncology].

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Intestinal obstruction is a frequent cause of death in patients suffering from gynecological cancer, who have undergone multiple treatment in the form of surgery and/or chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. The usual form of rescue treatment consists in the use of a nasogastric tube to administer support and analgesic treatment. Surgical gastrostomy is not a viable proposition in these extremely weak patients with large masses compressing and displacing the stomach. Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), a technique first introduced for nutritional purposes, can be beneficially used to achieve decompression in these patients. METHODS: PEG was performed in a total of 67 patients who had already undergone multiple treatment for abdominal-pelvic neoplasia with upper gastrointestinal obstruction, who could no longer be operated and who had a life expectancy of less than sixty days. In three cases positioning was not possible owing to the lack of transillumination of the gastric and abdominal wall. 54/64 patients had previously undergone at least two operations. RESULTS: Esophagogastric lesions were found in 29% of patients, some of which were attributed to the nasogastric tube. Symptomatic wellbeing was obtained in 76.5% a few days after PEG. PEG remained in situ from 4 to 472 days. Slight peristomal infection was observed in 9% of cases. In seven cases it was necessary to add octreotide owing to the reappearance of symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: PEG is relatively easy to use and allows obstructive symptoms to be resolved in the majority of patients. Special medical skills are not required and the patient may be easily managed at home together with support therapy and pain management. Once PEG has been performed, it is possible to take fluids and semi-liquid foods, offering the patient a chance to taste flavours which have often been forgotten. PEG enables neoadjuvant chemotherapy to be performed in patients with previously untreated intestinal obstruction.

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