Table 5.

Colorectal involvement in advanced ovarian cancer: literature review

Author/year	Patients (number)	Depth of bowel wall involvement (%)	Mesenteric nodal involvement (%)	Prognostic significance of pathological variables	Survival of optimally debulked patients
O’Hanlan[27](1995)	66	Serosa 41	72.7	Trend for patients with mesenteric nodal involvement to fail sooner	26 months
		Muscolaris 42
		Submucosa 14
		Mucosa 3
Lax[28](1998)	31	Serosa 45	64.5	Trend for patients with mesenteric nodal involvement to fail sooner	21 months
		Muscolaris 36
		Mucosa 19
Scarabelli[29](2000)	66	Muscolaris 100	37.9	Prognostic significance of depth of bowel wall involvement at multivariate analysis for patients with mesenteric node metastases	5 years
					42.2 %
Hertel[30](2001)	73	Serosa 38.5	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
		Muscolaris 42.4
		Mucosa 19.1
Park[31](2006)	46	Serosa 71.7	15.2	Prognostic significance of depth of bowel wall involvement only for disease-free survival	32 months
		Muscolaris + mucosa 28.3
Tebes[32](2006)	99	Serosa 33.3	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
		Muscolaris 39.4
		Submucosa 13.1
		Mucosa 14.2
Salani[33](2007)	31	Serosa 48	93.5	Not reported	Not reported
		Muscolaris 29
		Submucosa 7
		Mucosa 16
Gallota[20](2011)	71	Serosa 45	51	NO	38 months overall
		Muscolaris 25.4
		Submucosa 12.7			30 months disease-free
		Mucosa 16.9
Baiocchi[34](2011)	41	Serosa 34.1	70.7	Not reported	Not reported
		Muscolaris 31.7
		Submucosa 14.6
		Mucosa 19.5
Gouy[35](2012)	47	Serosa 61.7	40.4	NO	4 years 60 %
		Muscolaris 19.1
		Submucosa 6.3
		Mucosa 12.7
Present series	52	Serosa 25	42.3	Prognostic significance of depth of bowel wall involvement at multivariate analysis	35.5 months overall
		Muscolaris 67.3
		Mucosa 7.7			32.5 months disease-free