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Table 3 Early complication and toxicity by patient including intraoperative toxicity (within 30 days after surgery and i.p. chemotherapy)

From: Intra-operative intra-peritoneal chemotherapy with cisplatin in patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis of ovarian cancer

Type of complication

Number of patients

% of patients

Post operative pain

10

21.3

Infectious Peritonitis

5

10.6

Intraabdominal abscess

3

6.4

Others infectious complications*

12

25.5

Intraabdominal bleeding

7

14.9

Intestinal necrosis

2

4.3

Bowel occlusion

2

4.3

Thromboembolic events**

5

10.6

Renal failure

  

Grade 1

6

12.8

Grade 2

5

10.6

Grade 3

1

2.1

Grade 4

0

0

Anaemia grade 3

5

10.6

Neutropenia grade 3

4

8.5

Febrile Neutropenia

0

0

Thrombopenia grade 2

1

2.1

  1. * including 9 urinary infection and 3 pulmonary infection
  2. ** including: deep venous thrombosis of the leg and the arm in 3 and 1 patients respectively and a pulmonary embolism in 1 patient.