Carcinose péritonéale secondaire d'origine ovarienne

Ovarian cancer has a poor prognosis, mainly due to its late diagnosis at an advanced stage with extra-pelvic peritoneal or metastatic dissemination. Completeness of cytoreductive surgery is a major prognostic factor that needs careful preparation. In France, the association of chest, abdomen and pelvis CT and exploratory laparoscopy is considered as the most accurate preoperative assessment. The role of this assessment will be to detect pelvic (stage II) or extra-pelvic (stage III) peritoneal involvement; identify patients with metastatic disease (stage IV); to search for lesions that may contra-indicate cytoreductive surgery; to predict the possible surgical difficulties.