Figure 1.

PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) flow diagram illustrating the literature search strategy: It maps the number of records identified, screened, included as well as excluded with respective reasons, conforming to PRISMA guidelines available at http://prisma-statement.org. This systematic search was complemented by 48 manuscripts identified through manual search of review type articles and back searches from reference lists of included articles, resulting in 135 articles in total, containing 171 reports on HIPEC conduct.