Affiliation:
1. Dmitry Rogachev National Medical Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, Ministry of Health of Russia
2. Russian Children’s Clinical Hospital of the N. I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia
Abstract
Peritoneal sarcomatosis/carcinomatosis is a rare observation in pediatric practice. It occurs, as a rule, with various sarcomas, sarcomatoid tumors, desmoplastic small round cell tumors. Cytoreductive surgery followed by abdominal chemoperfusion has established itself as an effective method of treating such conditions in adult practice and is gaining popularity in pediatric practice. Laparoscopic cytoreduction followed by hyperthermic chemoperfusion used in adult patients has a number of advantages: early recovery after surgery, reduced hospital days, timely initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy, however, the experience of using a minimally invasive technique in children is limited. The article presents the first clinical observation in Russian practice of a 17-year-old patient with embryonal testicular rhabdomyosarcoma and peritoneal sarcomatosis of the abdominal cavity, which underwent laparoscopic cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic chemoperfusion.
Subject
Oncology,Hematology,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health