Outcome in Advanced Ovarian Cancer following an Appropriate and Comprehensive Effort at Upfront Cytoreduction: A Twenty-Year Experience in a Single Cancer Institute

Table 1

Surgical procedures performed during primary cytoreductive surgery.

Surgical procedures	Number of patients	Percentage
Hysterectomy:
total	152/340	44.7%
subtotal	61/340	17.9%
Salpingo-oophorectomy (unilateral or bilateral)	279/340	82%
Omentectomy	276/335 (5 MD)	82.4%
Bowel procedures:
Appendicectomy	22/335	6.6%
Bowel or peritoneal   biopsies	31/335	9.2%
Resection	10/335	3%
Other	4/335	1.2%
Lymph node resection (picking)
Pelvic	34/340	10%
Paraaortic	44/308 (32 MD)	14.3%
Pelvic and/or   paraaortic	61/340	18%

MD = missing data.