Aditi Bhatt Shared Study on Challenges of Surgical Intervenions in Occult Peritoneal Spaces

Aditi Bhatt, Senior Consultant of Surgical Oncology at Shalby Hospital, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“”Hidden regions” , ” Occult peritoneal spaces”

With Olivier Glehen and Paul Sugarbaker

– the anatomy of the peritoneum and peritoneal cavity is complex leading to many peritoneal tunnels and recesses that could harbor peritoneal metastases
– prior surgical intervenions create artifical occult peritoneal spaces
-some peritoneal sites are difficult to inspect

Failure to inspect and clear these occult peritoneal spaces could lead to a Pseudo-complete cytoreductive surgery.

This manuscript provides a comprehensive list and anatomical description of the occult spaces or ‘hidden regions’.
It completes the quartet of the PSOGI-ESGO-ISSPP consensus on peritoneal procedures

Special thanks to Niels Kok for chiselling the final version to perfection and facilitating open access publication as a young BJS manuscript.”

Title: Peritoneal surface malignancy: performing complete cytoreduction in occult peritoneal spaces is challenging

Authors: Olivier Glehen, Aditi Bhatt and Paul Sugarbaker

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