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Complications of heated intraperitioneal chemotherapy and strategies for prevention
1Department of Surgery, Wake Forest University Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1095, USA.
Cancer Treatment and Research
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
Heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy is a potentially useful strategy for therapy of peritoneal carcinomatosis in adult patients, and we have found it to be associated with an acceptable complication rate. Careful perioperative management is critical, and we have presented our current experience guidelines for management and overview of complications.