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salpingo-oophorectory
Surgical removal of fallopian tubes & ovaries, generally in association with total abdominal hysterectomy.
Indications:
- unilateral
- ruptured ectopic pregnancy
- adnexal torsion
- tuboovarian abscess
- bilateral
- ovarian cancer
- fallopian tube cancer
- prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO), with or without hysterectomy, after completion of childbearing is the standard of care for female carriers of BRCA1 mutation or BRCA2 mutation [1]
Specific
bilateral salpingo-oophorectory (BSO)
hysterectomy with salpingo-oophorectory & omectomy
General
salpingectomy
ovariectomy (oophorectomy)
References
- Rebbeck TR et al.
Meta-analysis of risk reduction estimates associated with
risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in BRCA1 or BRCA2
mutation carriers.
J Natl Cancer Inst 2009 Jan 21; 101:80.
PMID: 19141781
- Greene MH and Mai PL.
What have we learned from risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy?
J Natl Cancer Inst 2009 Jan 21; 101:70.
PMID: 19141782
- Ward SM, Chelmow D
Medscape: Salpingo-Oophorectomy
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1894587-overview