Pseudomyxoma peritonei associated with cholesterosis.

WERTH,1 in 1884, first called attention to the unusual finding of a gelatinous exudate, partly free and partly encysted, in the peritoneal cavity of a woman bearing a "pseudomucinous cyst" of the ovary. He named the process "pseudomyxoma peritonei" and traced its origin to the rupture of the ovarian cyst and subsequent implant of the cystic contents on the peritoneal membranes. In 1901 Fraenkel2 found a similar condition in a man with a ruptured mucocele of the appendix. Because of the gross similarity of patterns he considered it appropriate to retain the denomination previously proposed by Werth.1 Since then quite . . .