RESUMEN
Peritoneal carcinomatosis is a fatal diagnosis, associated with poor prognosis and quality of life. Survival is usually estimated in month. Traditionally surgery for peritoneal carcinomatosis was indicated only for palliative effort. Advances in tumour biology, cytoreductive surgery and pharmacology have improved the approach for this condition. An aggressive combined approach to peritoneal surface malignancy involves peritonectomy and intraperitoneal perioperative hyperthermic chemotherapy. Cytoreductive surgery reduces carcinomatosis to microscopic residual disease so that intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy is able to eradicate cancer. Hyperthermic chemotherapy enhances the cytotoxicity of the drugs and increases their penetration into the cancerous tissue. Careful patient selection is crucial for this multimodality approach. Quantitative prognostic indicators are useful in the assessment of outcome, like peritoneal cancer index and completeness of cytoreduction score. Cytoreductive surgery combined with intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy improves survival but is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. This review is based on a case report of a 22-year-old female patient who had peritoneal carcinomatosis of inflammatory myofibroblastic sarcoma and was treated by cytoreductive surgery and intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy at our department.