Omental cake invading the urinary bladder – a case report and literature review

Abstract

Omental cake represents a common finding in advanced stage ovarian cancer and is characterized by the complete omental transformation. Most often it is associated with subjacent invasion of the enteral segments and needs multiple resections in order to achieve radical cytoreductive surgery. Meanwhile, in other cases different visceral invasions are encountered necessitating other visceral resections. The aim of the current paper is to report the case of a 55 year old patient diagnosed with stage IIIC ovarian cancer in whom intraoperatively omental cake transformation invading the urinary bladder was encountered.