[Pseudomyxoma peritonei]

The clinical course of 8 patients with pseudomyxoma peritonei developed from ovariah tumors and 3 from mucocoele appendicis is presented. Except in two instances, all tumors were originally benign, one of them with metastases of kystoma mucinosum to inguinal lymphnods. The treatment was basically surgical and consisted of the removal of sree and organised mucus and, naturally, of the ovarian tumor or muccocoele where possible. Supplementary local chemotherapy with 5 -- fluorouracyl were of some benefit. In one instance, where multiple small pappillomas were found in the visceral and parietal peritoneum, all metastases disppeared after the intra abdominal application of 150 mC of Au.