1.Expert consensus on the diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer peritoneal metastasis (2025 edition).
Chinese Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2025;28(5):441-449
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common malignant tumors in China, ranking second in morbidity and fourth in mortality. Metastasis and recurrence are the leading causes of patient death, and the peritoneum is a frequent site of metastasis in CRC, second only to liver and lung metastases. However, the prognosis of peritoneal metastasis is much worse than hepatic and pulmonary metastasis. CRC peritoneal metastasis is challenging early diagnosis, presents with severe symptoms, and has a poor prognosis. It is crucial to emphasize standardized diagnosis and treatment for CRC peritoneal metastasis to improve patients' outcome and enhance their quality of life. This consensus, based on evidence-based medical evidence, revised the "Chinese Expert Consensus on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Colorectal Cancer Peritoneal Metastasis (2022 edition)" and reached a preliminary consensus on the definition, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of CRC peritoneal metastasis, with the aim of guiding and standardizing the diagnosis and treatment of CRC peritoneal metastasis, developing reasonable and effective comprehensive treatment plans, prolonging survival time and improving quality of life for CRC peritoneal metastasis patients, thereby raising the overall level of diagnosis and treatment for CRC in China.
Humans
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Peritoneal Neoplasms/therapy*
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Colorectal Neoplasms/diagnosis*
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Consensus
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Quality of Life
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Prognosis
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China
2.Expert consensus on the comprehensive management of peritoneal metastasis from appendiceal epithelial neoplasms (2025 version).
Chinese Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2025;28(11):1223-1231
Epithelial tumors of the appendix refer to neoplastic lesions originating from the epithelial tissue of the appendix mucosa. These neoplasms exhibit highly heterogeneous pathological features and biological behavior, which contribute to their strong propensity for peritoneal metastasis. Currently, evidence-based medicine regarding appendiceal epithelial neoplasms and the management of their peritoneal metastasis is limited, leading to a lack of standardized clinical practices. To address this, the Professional Committee of Integrated Rehabilitation for Peritoneal Tumors of the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association has organized multidisciplinary experts to focus on key aspects such as the pathological classification of epithelial tumors of the appendix, clinical staging of tumors,the indications for extended resection after local resection, the surgical treatment strategies for concurrent peritoneal metastasis, perioperative rehabilitation, and individualized treatment, while integrating the technical capabilities of relevant specialties. At the same time, it has standardized the perioperative management of cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), as well as the clinical application of the pre-rehabilitation system, to enhance the practical operability. Ultimately, the Expert Consensus on the Comprehensive Management of Peritoneal Metastasis from Appendiceal Epithelial Neoplasms (2025 Edition) was developed. This consensus is aimed at further standardizing the systematic diagnosis and treatment process of epithelial tumors of the appendix, thereby reducing the risk of recurrence, improving patient prognosis, and promoting the standardization and homogenization of the diagnosis and treatment of peritoneal metastasis from such tumors.
Humans
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Appendiceal Neoplasms/therapy*
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Peritoneal Neoplasms/therapy*
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Cytoreduction Surgical Procedures
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Consensus
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Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
3.Rare metastatic primary intra-abdominal follicular dendritic cell sarcoma poorly responsive to chemotherapy: A case report
Leah Anne E. Legaspi ; Mary Ondinee-Igot ; Gracieux Fernando
Philippine Journal of Internal Medicine 2024;62(1):308-313
Background:
Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma (FDCS) accounts for about 0.4% of soft tissue sarcomas. Approximately onethird of cases occur in extranodal sites and about 28% of extranodal FDCS may metastasize. Intra-abdominal occurrence is
rare and there is limited published data to guide oncologists on how to best treat this malignancy.
Case Presentation:
This is a case of a 33-year-old female who came in due to incidental finding of a left supraclavicular
mass with 2-year history of early satiety. Neck node biopsy revealed a poorly differentiated malignant tumor with positive
staining for CD21, CD23, vimentin and S100 consistent with FDCS. PET-CT revealed an intensely FDG-avid large mass in
the left upper abdomen with signs of necrosis and mass effect. The patient was given three different chemotherapy
regimens that included (1) gemcitabine/docetaxel, (2) single agent doxorubicin and (3) ifosfamide/etoposide, but she
progressed on all these. Off-label use of bendamustine was then offered and after just the first cycle, the patient reportedly
regained strength and was able to get up from wheelchair with noted interval decrease in size of the cervical mass.
Unfortunately, the patient deteriorated and succumbed to infection and multiple pulmonary embolisms.
Conclusion
Intra-abdominal FDCS is a rare malignancy with heterogenous outcomes with no uniform treatment strategy
at present. Molecular tumor board discussion and multi-disciplinary approach in extranodal FDCS is important in the
diagnosis and management. Patients with multiple poor prognostic factors are at risk for tumor recurrence, metastasis, and
death.
Dendritic Cell Sarcoma, Follicular
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Abdominal Neoplasms
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Drug Therapy
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Bendamustine Hydrochloride
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Prognosis
5.China Anti-Cancer Association (CACA) guidelines for holistic integrative management of cancer-peritoneal tumours from gastrointestinal tract.
Chinese Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2023;26(2):111-120
Peritoneal tumours have a large population and a poor prognosis with limited therapeutic options available, and are common originated from gastric, colorectal, appendix and other cancers. Traditionally, peritoneal tumours have long been considered to be a terminal condition with a median survival of 3-6 months, and the palliative symptomatic treatment is recommended. Recently, the multimodal therapeutic strategy of cytoreductive surgery (CRS) combined with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) has resulted in more effective on the prevention and treatment of peritoneal metastasis, which can significantly improve the survival and quality of life. Under the guidance of the China Anti-Cancer Association (CACA), the "CACA Guidelines for Holistic Integrative Management of Cancer-Peritoneal Tumours" was jointly completed by experts in related fields organized by the Chinese Society of Peritoneal Oncology. This guideline is guided by the concept of integrative medicine and focuses on the domestic epidemiology, genetic background and original studies. It emphasizes the multidisciplinary team to holistic integrative medicine (MDT to HIM), and pays attention to the whole-course management of "prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation". This guideline mainly focuses on peritoneal metastasis from gastrointestinal tumours, aiming to standardize the clinical diagnosis and treatment process, and jointly promote the management of peritoneal metastasis in China.
Humans
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Peritoneal Neoplasms/secondary*
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Combined Modality Therapy
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Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/therapeutic use*
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Quality of Life
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Prognosis
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Hyperthermia, Induced/methods*
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Gastrointestinal Tract
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Colorectal Neoplasms/pathology*
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Cytoreduction Surgical Procedures/methods*
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Survival Rate
6.Progress in diagnosis and treatment of ovarian metastases in rectal cancer.
Xue Lai HE ; Qin Xing CAO ; Ming Hui PANG
Chinese Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2023;26(3):295-301
Rectal cancer is the most common tumor of digestive tract. For female patients, ovarian metastasis ranks the second place in intraperitoneal organ metastasis. Its symptoms are occult, easily missed and insensitive to systemic treatment, so the prognosis is poor. Surgery is the treatment of choice for patients with rectal ovarian metastases, whether R0 resection is possible or not, and reducing tumor load is associated with better prognosis. With the continuous development of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), tumor reduction can reach the cellular level, which can significantly improve survival. Prophylactic ovariectomy remains a controversial issue in patients at high risk of ovarian metastasis. In this review, we summarize the diagnosis, treatment and prevention strategies of rectal cancer ovarian metastases, hoping to provide some reference for clinical practice.
Humans
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Female
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Colorectal Neoplasms/pathology*
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Hyperthermia, Induced
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Peritoneal Neoplasms/secondary*
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Rectal Neoplasms/therapy*
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Ovarian Neoplasms/therapy*
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Combined Modality Therapy
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Cytoreduction Surgical Procedures
7.The clinical value of serum GPC3 level in predicting recurrence of patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma.
Pei Ru ZHANG ; Xiao Lu MA ; Lin GUO ; Ren Quan LU
Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine 2023;57(6):885-890
Objective: To investigate the clinical value of serum glypican-3 (GPC3) detection in predicting recurrence of primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Methods: Through univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis, the patients pathologically diagnosed with HCC in our hospital from March 2019 to January 2021 were enrolled as the experimental group (n=113), and patients with follow-up time longer than 6 months were included in the prognosis group(n=64). At the same time,20 healthy individuals and 20 individuals with benign liver disease from the physical examination center were enrolled by simple random sampling as control group (n=40). The serum GPC3 and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels were respectively detected by ELISA and chemiluminescence. Then, the study explored the influential factors of the recurrence in HCC patients and constructed the HCC-GPC3 recurrence predicting model by logistic regression. Results: In the research, the sensitivity of GPC3 for the diagnosis of HCC was 61.95% (70/113) and AFP was 52.21% (59/113), meanwhile, the specificity of GPC3 could reach 87.50% (35/40) and AFP was 90.00% (36/40),respectively; The serum GPC3 levels of HCC patients with progressive stage, tumor size≥3 cm, vascular cancer thrombosis and portal venous thromboembolism were significantly higher than that of HCC patients with early stage, tumor size<3 cm, vascular cancer thrombosis and portal venous thromboembolism (Z=2.677, 2.848, 2.995, 2.252, P<0.05), independent of different ages, presence or absence of ascites, peritoneal metastasis, cirrhosis, intrahepatic metastasis (Z=-1.535, 1.011, 0.963, 0.394, 1.510, P>0.05), respectively. Univariate analysis showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the recurrence group and the non-recurrence group in terms of different age, tumor size, presence or absence of vascular cancer thrombosis, ascites, peritoneal metastasis, cirrhosis and AFP levels (χ2=2.012, 0.119, 2.363, 1.041, 0.318, 0.360, Z=0.748, P>0.05); The ratio of those with the progressive stage, portal venous thromboembolism and intrahepatic metastasis and GPC3 levels were all higher in the recurrence group than in the non-recurrence group (χ2=4.338, 11.90, 4.338, Z=2.805, P<0.05).Including the above risk factors in the logistic regression model, the logistic regression analysis showed that the stage, the presence of portal venous thromboembolism,intrahepatic metastasis and GPC3 levels were correlated with the prognosis recurrence of HCC patients (Wald χ2 =4.421, 5.681, 4.995, 4.319, P<0.05), and the HCC-GPC3 recurrence model was obtained as: OcScore=-2.858+1.563×[stage]+1.664×[intrahepatic metastasis]+2.942×[ portal venous thromboembolism]+0.776×[GPC3]. According to the receiver operating characteristic curve(ROC), the area under the curve(AUC)of the HCC-GPC3 prognostic model was 0.862, which was better than that of GPC3 alone (AUC=0.704). The cut-off value of model SCORE was 0.699 (the cut-off value of GPC3 was 0.257 mg/L), furthermore, the total sensitivity and specificity of model were 83.3% and 82.4%, which were better than those of GPC3(60.0% and 79.4%).Kaplan-Meier showed that the median PFS was significantly shorter in HCC patients with high GPC3 levels (≥0.257 mg/L) and high values of the model SCORE (≥0.700) (χ2=12.73, 28.16, P<0.05). Conclusion: Besides diagnosing of HCC, GPC3 can may be an independent risk indicator for the recurrence of HCC and can more efficiently predicting the recurrence of HCC patients when combined with the stage, the presence or absence of intrahepatic metastasis and portal venous thromboembolism.
Humans
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Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/pathology*
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Liver Neoplasms/diagnosis*
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alpha-Fetoproteins/analysis*
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Biomarkers, Tumor
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Glypicans
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Ascites
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Venous Thromboembolism
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Peritoneal Neoplasms
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Liver Cirrhosis
9.Summary of experience with patterning cropped and shaped mesh repair for perineal hernia after abdominoperineal excision in rectal cancer.
Yi Ping CHEN ; Xiang ZHANG ; Chun Zhong LIN ; Guo Zhong LIU ; Shan Geng WENG
Chinese Journal of Surgery 2023;61(6):486-492
Objective: To examine the patterning cropped and shaped mesh repair for perineal hernia after abdominoperineal excision (APE) in rectal cancer. Methods: The clinical data of 8 patients with perineal hernia after APE who accepted surgical treatment in the Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary and Hernia Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University from March 2017 to December 2022 were retrospectively reviewed. There were 3 males and 5 females, aged (67.6±7.2) years (range: 56 to 76 years). Eight patients developed a perineal mass at (11.3±2.9) months (range: 5 to 13 months) after APE. After surgical separation of adhesion and exposing the pelvic floor defect, a 15 cm×20 cm anti-adhesion mesh was fashioned as a three-dimensional pocket shape to fit the pelvic defect, then fixed to the promontory or sacrum and sutured to the pelvic sidewalls and the anterior peritoneum, while two side slender slings were tailored in front of the mesh and fixed on the pectineal ligament. Results: The repair of their perineal hernias went well, with an operating time of (240.6±48.8) minutes (range: 155 to 300 minutes). Five patients underwent laparotomy, 3 patients tried laparoscopic surgery first and then transferred to laparotomy combined with the perineal approach. Intraoperative bowel injury was observed in 3 patients. All patients did not have an intestinal fistula, bleeding occurred. No reoperation was performed and their preoperative symptoms improved significantly. The postoperative hospital stay was (13.5±2.9) days (range: 7 to 17 days) and two patients had postoperative ileus, which improved after conservative treatment. Two patients had a postoperative perineal hernia sac effusion, one of them underwent placement of a tube to puncture the hernia sac effusion due to infection, and continued irrigation and drainage. The postoperative follow-up was (34.8±14.0) months (range: 13 to 48 months), and 1 patient developed recurrence in the seventh postoperative month, no further surgery was performed. Conclusions: Surgical repair of the perineal hernia after APE can be preferred transabdominal approach, routine application of laparoscopy is not recommended, combined abdominoperineal approach can be considered if necessary. The perineal hernia after APE can be repaired safely and effectively using the described technique of patterning cropped and shaped mesh repair.
Male
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Female
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Humans
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Animals
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Herniorrhaphy/methods*
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Surgical Mesh
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Retrospective Studies
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Hernia, Abdominal/surgery*
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Hernia
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Rectal Neoplasms/surgery*
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Proctectomy
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Laparoscopy
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Perineum/surgery*
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Postoperative Complications
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Incisional Hernia/surgery*
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Hominidae
10.A case of malignant peritoneal mesothelioma.
Fang ZHAO ; Ying Liang ZHANG ; Xi LIU ; Ting Hao CHEN ; Jing LI
Chinese Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases 2023;41(4):307-309
Malignant mesothelioma is a highly malignant disease that most often occurs in the pleural cavity, followed by the peritoneum and pericardium. Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma (MPM) accounts for 10%-15% of all mesothelioma. The most important risk factor for MPM is exposure to asbestos. MPM has no specific clinical symptoms, imaging and histopathology are critical for the diagnosis. There are currently no generally accepted guidelines for curative treatment of MPM. The patient mainly presented with abdominal pain, abdominal distension and discomfort. Due to extensive omentum metastasis, no further surgical treatment was performed. Pemetrexed combined with cisplatin chemotherapy was given for 2 cycles, and the patient is still alive.
Humans
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Mesothelioma, Malignant/drug therapy*
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Mesothelioma/diagnosis*
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Pemetrexed/therapeutic use*
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Cisplatin/therapeutic use*
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Peritoneal Neoplasms/diagnosis*
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Pleural Neoplasms
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Lung Neoplasms/drug therapy*


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