[Importance of laparoscopy to postoperative treatment of ovarian carcinoma (author's transl)]

Indications in favour of peritoneoscopy in postoperative after-treatment of ovarian carcinomas are proposed on the basis of the authors' own experience. Postoperative laparoscopy in combination with peritoneal cytology and histology appears to be justified in support of differentiated postoperative therapy, since it enables modification of empirical and rigid decions for high-continuity after-treatment of ovarian carcinomas.