title: Combined treatment with surgery and intraperitoneal hyperthermic perfusion (IPHP) for far-advanced gastrointestinal cancer with peritoneal seeding.
abstract: In 19 patients with advanced gastric carcinoma intraperitoneal hyperthermia combined with mitomycin C was administered. After this therapy in repeated cytological examinations of the peritoneal effusion malignant cells could be determined. From 19 patients 5 died innert the first 10 months. The other patients lived 12 months without recurrence.
authors.affiliation: 1st Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fujimoto
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Shrestha
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Koike
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kokubun
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kiuchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Konno
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okui
mesh_terms: D010478:Chemotherapy, Cancer, Regional Perfusion / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D006979:Hyperthermia, Induced / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010534:Peritoneal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D015996:Survival Rate; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000473:pathology