Laparoscopic Port Site Implantation With Ovarian Cancer

Laparoscopic Port Site Implantation With Ovarian Cancer

Hopkins M P; von Gruenigen V; Gaich S

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

2000

2000-03

We report the cases of 3 patients in whom tumor implantation developed at the port site at which ovarian cancer was removed laparoscopically. The 3 patients, who were aged 30, 32, and 40 years, all had an ovary that did not appear cancerous removed by laparoscopy through a port site. All 3 patients underwent reexploration within 3 weeks and were found to have tumoral spread and port site implantation of tumor. When ovarian cancer is removed laparoscopically, the potential exists for intra-abdominal tumoral spread. When surgical staging is undertaken after laparoscopic removal of ovarian cancer, the port site should be excised in a full-thickness fashion.

laparoscopy; Obstetrics & Gynecology; ovarian cancer; port site

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