Quantitative intra-operative assessment of peritoneal carcinomatosis - A comparison of three prognostic tools

H.A.M. Swellengrebel (1) , F.A.N. Zoetmulder (1) , R.M. Smeenk (1) , N. Antonini (2) , V.J. Verwaal (1)

1 Department of Surgical Oncology
2 Department of Biometrics The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital Amsterdam

Selecting patients for cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intra-peritoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) remains challenging. We compared the predictive power of three intra-operative assessment tools of peritoneal involvement of colorectal cancer.

Mots clés: Colorectal cancer; HIPEC; peritoneal carcinomatosis; peritoneal cancer index; simplified peritoneal cancer index

H.A.M. Swellengrebel, F.A.N. Zoetmulder, R.M. Smeenk, N. Antonini, V.J. Verwaal. Quantitative intra-operative assessment of peritoneal carcinomatosis - A comparison of three prognostic tools. EJSO - European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2009, 35 (10), pp.1078. ⟨10.1016/j.ejso.2009.02.010⟩. ⟨hal-00556283⟩