Marshfield Medical Center has performed Wisconsin's first pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC), ...

A single-lumen, silicone rubber catheter traversing the anterior abdominal wall is used to access the peritoneal cavity. Ideally, the catheter is positioned with the tip in the true pelvis.

While peritoneal cancer is deemed "rare", American studies suggest that it appears in up to 10 percent of all women diagnosed with ovarian and fallopian tube cancer. The peritoneum is a serous ...

Each material was injected in a 50 µg dose into the peritoneal (abdominal) cavity of mice and the cavity systematically washed out at 24 h or 7 days post exposure with physiological saline ...

Pressurized intraperitoneal aerosolized chemotherapy offers new hope for patients with metastatic cancers that occur within ...

If you have peritonitis caused by peritoneal dialysis, you may get medications injected directly into the abdominal cavity. Many people need emergency surgery, especially if their peritonitis is ...

Peritoneal cancer is a type of cancer that develops in the epithelial cells that line the peritoneum, which is the inside of the abdominal wall ... in the peritoneal cavity and has not spread ...

we saw a large volume of reddish-brown peritoneal fluid. Before entering the abdominal cavity, we withdrew 35 ml of fluid by syringe. Cytological evaluation of the peritoneal fluid showed that it ...