Abstract
Background
Patients with positive peritoneal cytology from oesophagogastric cancer have a poor prognosis. The purpose of this study was to compare lavage cytology from the pelvis alone with the pelvis and subphrenic areas at staging laparoscopy in patients with potentially resectable oesophagogastric adenocarcinoma.
Methods
Between November 2006 and November 2010, all patients with operable oesophagogastric adenocarcinoma on spiral CT considered fit for surgical resection underwent staging laparoscopy. Subphrenic and pelvic peritoneal lavage for cytology was performed followed by laparoscopic biopsy of any visible peritoneal disease. Patients were divided into groups: macroscopic peritoneal metastases (P+), no macroscopic peritoneal disease with negative cytology (P−C−), no macroscopic peritoneal disease with positive pelvic cytology (P−PC+), no macroscopic peritoneal disease with positive subphrenic cytology (P−SC+), or both (P−PSC+).
Results
A total of 316 staging laparoscopy procedures were performed; 245 patients (78 %) were P−C−, 28 (9 %) were P+, and 43 (14 %) were P−C+, of whom 29 (9 %) were P−PSC+, 10 (3 %) were P−SC+, and 4 (1 %) were P−PC+. Pelvic cytology alone had 76.7 % sensitivity for peritoneal disease, and subphrenic cytology alone had 90.7 % sensitivity.
Conclusions
Peritoneal lavage for cytology at staging laparoscopy has an incremental benefit for staging oesophagogastric adenocarcinoma in the absence of macroscopic metastatic disease. Subphrenic washings have the highest yield of positive results. Performing isolated pelvic washings for cytology will understage 23.3 % of patients with microscopic peritoneal disease. The routine use of subphrenic in combination with pelvic lavage for cytology at staging laparoscopy in patients with oesophagogastric adenocarcinoma has an incremental benefit in detecting cytology-positive disease over either pelvic or subphrenic cytology alone.
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Aruna Munasinghe, Wasim Kazi, Phillipe Taniere, Mike T. Hallissey, Derek Alderson, and Olga Tucker have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.
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Munasinghe, A., Kazi, W., Taniere, P. et al. The incremental benefit of two quadrant lavage for peritoneal cytology at staging laparoscopy for oesophagogastric adenocarcinoma. Surg Endosc 27, 4049–4053 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-013-3058-5
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