title: [The clinical role of appendectomy in surgical procedures for ovarian cancer].
abstract: To assess the clinical role of appendectomy in the surgical procedures for ovarian cancer. We have evaluated retrospectively 96 cases of epithelial ovarian cancer treated from Aug. 1986 to Aug. 1993. In 19 cases the appendiceal involvement was pathologically confirmed (19.8%). All of the patients with appendiceal metastases were found in stages III-IV, with an incidence of 33.3%. There was no significant statistical difference between either the histologic type of ovarian cancer or the side (left or right) of the ovarian involvement and the incidence of metastasis in the appendix. We conclude, with these results, that the appendix was not a primary site involved in the early stages. Appendectomy is not to be regarded as a routine surgical procedures in the early I-II stages of ovarian cancer, but it may help to reduce residual disease in advanced patients.
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Cancer Hospital, Chengdu.
authors.forename: G N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Xiao
mesh_terms: D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D001062:Appendectomy; D001063:Appendiceal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D018269:Carcinoma, Endometrioid / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D018284:Cystadenocarcinoma, Serous / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies