title: [Interest in intestinal resection for treatment of advanced ovarian cancer].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Digestive surgery is often necessary for surgical management of advanced ovarian carcinoma.
  
  
  METHODS
  In a series of 62 patients with stage III ovarian carcinoma, postoperative morbidity and mortality, overall survival after 5 years and disease-free survival after 2 years were studied and corelated with several patients criteria (age, stage of the disease, residual disease, type of surgery, CA125 normalisation delay, postoperative complications and hospital stay). Patients were divided into two groups according to the surgical treatment. The first group (n = 17) included patients treated by gynecologic and digestive surgery, the second group (n = 45) included patients treated by gynecologic surgery only. All patients were proposed for chemotherapy included platyn salt. Mean age was 60 years (range: 20-83). The stage of the cancer was stage IIIa in 7 cases, stage IIIb in ten and stage IIIc in 45.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Postoperative mortality was 3.5% (2/62). Postoperative morbidity was 26% (13/62). No statistical differences were noted for hospital stay, general morbidity, surgical morbidity when a gastric resection or a colon resections or a splenectomy were performed. Overall survival at 5 years was 56%. Residual disease less than 2 cm3 is the only prognostic factor for overall survival (56% vs 23% [P = 0.03]) and disease-free survival (86% vs 46% [P = 0.02]).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study including 62 patients confirmed the prognostic significance of extensive cytoreductive surgery for treatment in advanced ovarian epithelial cancer without increasing the postoperative morbidy and mortality.
authors.affiliation: Service de gynécologie-obstétrique I, hôpitaux universitaires de Strasbourg-Hautepierre, 1, avenue Molière, 67200 Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hamid
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rohr
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Baldauf
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ritter
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kurtz
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dufour
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Minetti
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D013505:Digestive System Surgical Procedures; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009017:Morbidity; D009026:Mortality; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors