Acute pericarditis after transabdominal cardiophrenic lymph node dissection and pericardotomy during ovarian cancer debulking surgery: A case report

Dib Sassine; Dimitrios Nasioudis; Kathryn Miller; Rebecca Chang; Derman Basaran; Evan S Smith; Sarah Ehmann; Dennis S Chi

doi:10.1016/j.gore.2020.100683

Acute pericarditis after transabdominal cardiophrenic lymph node dissection and pericardotomy during ovarian cancer debulking surgery: A case report

Gynecol Oncol Rep. 2020 Dec 11:35:100683. doi: 10.1016/j.gore.2020.100683. eCollection 2021 Feb.

Authors

Dib Sassine¹, Dimitrios Nasioudis¹, Kathryn Miller¹, Rebecca Chang¹, Derman Basaran¹, Evan S Smith¹, Sarah Ehmann¹, Dennis S Chi^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
² Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.

Abstract

•Complete gross resection as part of debulking surgery is crucial in advanced ovarian cancer.•Supradiaphragmatic lymph node resection may prolong survival in patients with ovarian cancer.•We report acute pericarditis after supradiaphragmatic lymph node resection and pericardotomy.

Keywords: Complete cytoreduction; Ovarian cancer; Pericarditis; Supradiaphragmatic lymph node dissection.

Publication types

Case Reports

Grants and funding

P30 CA008748/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States