History of pseudomyxoma peritonei from its origin to the first decades of the twenty-first century

Figure 1 A 37-year-old woman operated on for a ruptured giant mucinous cystadenoma of the pancreas. A: Computed tomography image showing free mucinous ascites (arrows) and the dome of the pancreatic cystic lesion (mucinous cystadenoma with focal adenocarcinoma) in the retrogastric area; B: Peritoneal fluid in the right paracolic gutter (arrow) and corporal cystic lesion with septa.

Figure 2 Thoracic computed tomography images showing bilateral nodular metastases (arrows) from a low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm.

Figure 3 Two forms of omental cake in two patients with peritoneal dissemination of low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm. Note the sparing of the small bowel in the right picture.