Pleura and Peritoneum (Sep 2024)

Impact of laparoscopic ultrasound during PIPAC directed treatment of unresectable peritoneal metastasis

  • Jørgensen Magnus S.,
  • Ainsworth Alan P.,
  • Fristrup Claus W.,
  • Mortensen Michael B.,
  • Graversen Martin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/pp-2024-0007
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 3
pp. 107 – 112

Abstract

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Laparoscopic ultrasound (LUS) combines both laparoscopy and ultrasound imaging of the peritoneum liver and retroperitoneum. LUS has not been described in treatments with pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC). We present our experience with LUS in patients undergoing PIPAC.

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