Ovarian carcinoma is generally diagnosed at an advanced stage. Any gross peritoneal disease outside pelvis more than 2 cm in size is staged as FIGO stage IIIc. It encompasses a spectrum of disease from solitary tumor deposit anywhere in abdomen to diffuse peritoneal metastases resulting in a frozen abdomen. The prognosis of the patients across this spectrum vary widely. Therefore, there is a need to validate a score which can precisely prognosticate a patient with advanced ovarian carcinoma.The aim of surgery is to achieve optimal cytoreduction i.e. CCS 0/1. PCI is known to have a correlation...
Ovarian carcinoma is generally diagnosed at an advanced stage. Any gross peritoneal disease outside pelvis more than 2 cm in size is staged as FIGO st...