Table 2. Clinical data used to establish the diagnosis of peritoneal metastases in included cohort studies.

In studies with several diagnostic criteria, the criteria were used alternatively.

[5-11], [16-25]

Author	Pathology			Abdominal computed tomography criteria				Clinical file
	Biopsy	Cytology	Surgery	Not specified	Ascites	Peritoneal lesion	Omental lesion
Lamovec J et al.	X
Antic T et al.		X
Jain S et al.		X	X	X
Inoue M et al.				X				X
Winston C B et al.						X
DiPiro P J et al.	X					X	X
Kennecke H et al.					X	X	X
Bertozzi S et al.		X		X
Flanagan M et al.		X		X				X
Tuthill M et al.				X
Abu-Rustum NR et al.			X
Eitan R et al.			X
Garg R et al.			X
Cardi M et al.			X
McLemore EC et al.	X			X
Gusani NJ et al.	X		X	X