Includes bibliographical references and index.

The normal peritoneum: anatomy and function / Nicola Di Paolo ... [et al.] -- Basic biology and metastatic spread in epithelial ovarian cancer / Konstantinos N. Chatzigeorgiou, Theodoros Agorastos and Dimitrios Vavilis -- Diagnostic modalities for peritoneal carcinomatosis of ovarian cancer: the role of ultrasound / Efstratios Assimakopoulos -- Diagnostic modalities for peritoneal carcinomatosis of ovarian cancer: the role of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging / Antonios Drevelegas -- Diagnostic modalities for peritoneal carcinomatosis of ovarian cancer: the role of laparoscopy / Grigoris F. Grimbizis -- Surgery for advanced stages of ovarian cancer with peritoneal carcinomatosis / Toon Van Gorp, Frederic Amant and Ignace Vergote -- Systemic chemotherapy for advanced ovarian cancer with peritoneal carcinomatosis / Lazaros L. Boutis and Anastasios L. Boutis -- Intraperitoneal chemotherapy in the treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis of ovarian cancer / Maurie Markman -- Rationale and techniques for intraoperative hyperthermic intraperitoneal perfusion chemotherapy of the peritoneal cavity / Eelco de Bree and Dimitris D. Tsiftsis -- Results of intraoperative hyperthermic intraperitoneal perfusion chemotherapy in the treatment of ovarian cancer with peritoneal dissemination / Eelco de Bree and Konstantinos N. Chatzigeorgiou.