Open AccessPostoperative peritonitis without an underlying digestive fistula after complete cytoreductive surgery plus HIPEC
Author(s) -
Charles Honoré,
Isabelle Sourrouille,
Stéphanie Suria,
Ludivine Chalumeau-Lemoine,
Frédéric Dumont,
Diane Goèré,
Dominique Élias
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the saudi journal of gastroenterology/saudi journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-4049
pISSN - 1319-3767
DOI - 10.4103/1319-3767.121033
Subject(s) - medicine , hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy , peritonitis , surgery , fistula , cytoreductive surgery , cancer , ovarian cancer
Peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) is a pernicious event associated with a dismal prognosis. Complete cytoreductive surgery (CCRS) combined with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) is able to yield an important survival benefit but at the price of a risky procedure inducing potentially severe complications. Postoperative peritonitis after abdominal surgery occurs mostly when the digestive lumen and the peritoneum communicate but in rare situation, no underlying digestive fistula can be found. The aim of this study was to report this situation after CCRS plus HIPEC, which has not been described yet and for which the treatment is not yet well defined.