[Retroperitoneal approach and pelvic peritoneoectomy in the surgical management of advanced ovarian cancer].

Objective: To share our experience in surgical management of advanced ovarian cancer applying a retroperitoneal approach and performing pelvic peritoneoectomy for the achievement of an optimal debulking in this disease.

Material: Thirty eight patients age ranging from 36 to 77 years (average 55,7 years) staged: I - 2 (5,3%), II - 4 (10,5%), //III/ - 28 (73,7%) and IV - 4 (10,5%) had been operated on. Thirty patients presented without previous therapy, 3 - after total abdominal hysterectomy with adnexes, 1 - after supravaginal hysterectomy with adnexes, 1 - after unilateral adnexectomy and 3 - after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.