Vasilios Pergialiotis, Dimitrios Efthymios Vlachos, Loukas Feroussis, Vasilios Lygizos, Ioannis Rodolakis, Konstantinos Bramis, Eleftherios Zachariou, Georgios Daskalakis, Nikolaos Thomakos, Dimitrios Haidopoulos
Background: Splenectomy is a very common procedure that is frequently necessary in cases requiring upper abdominal surgery for ovarian cancer. To date, the impact of postoperative thrombocytosis on ovarian cancer survival has not been studied. In the present retrospective cohort study we chose to evaluate the impact of post-splenectomy thrombocytosis on survival outcomes of patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer …