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Cytoreductive surgery with intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer.
J Gastrointest Surg
October 2004
Department of Surgery, Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA.
Peritoneal carcinomatosis is a common and universally fatal sequelae of gastric carcinoma. Treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis from appendiceal and colorectal sources with intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy (IPHC) combined with aggressive cytoreductive surgery has been shown to be effective. There are few data on this treatment modality for carcinoma of the stomach.
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