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MedPulse - International Medical Journal, ISSN 2348-2516 E-ISSN: 2348-1897

Volume 1, Issue 2, April 2014 pp 125-128

Case Report

Laparoscopic port site metastasis 1 year after chemotherapy in a patient with ovarian cancer – a case report

Shruthi Shivdas¹, U. D. Bafna², Uma Devi K.³, Pallavi V. R.⁴, Mariam Anjum Ifthikar⁵

{^1,5 Fellow in Gynaecologic Oncology}{²Professor and HOD, ^3,4Associate Professor, Department of Gynaecologic Oncology}

Academic Editor : Dr. Bhanap P. L.

Role of laparoscopy in treatment of gynecological cancers is growing enormously. The claimed benefits include shorter hospital stay, lesser degrees of morbidity. However, there are some disadvantages of laparoscopy, of which port site metastasis is a noted complication. Patients with extensive disease, as cites, peritoneal deposits are at risk of developing port site metastasis, and most of the reported cases have noted port site metastasis within 6 months of primary surgery. We report a case of port site metastasis in a 55 year old lady with epithelial carcinoma of ovary, which underwent laparoscopic procedure for interval debulking of the tumor following neoadjuvant chemotherapy. The metastasis occurred after one year of adjuvant chemotherapy, which is not a usual phenomenon.