Medicine:Salpingoophorectomy
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| Salpingoophorectomy | |
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| ICD-9-CM | 65.4, 65.6 |
In medicine, salpingoophorectomy is the removal of an ovary and its Fallopian tube.[1] The "salpingoophorectomy," is a correct and accepted spelling, but much less common than "salpingo-oophorectomy."[citation needed] This procedure is most frequently associated with prophylactic surgery in response to the discovery of a BRCA mutation, particularly those of the normally tumor suppressing BRCA1 gene (or, with a statistically lower negative impact, those of the tumour suppressing BRCA2 gene), which can increase the risk of a woman developing ovarian cancer to as high as 65% (as high as 25% for a mutated BRCA2 gene).
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References
- ↑ "Salpingo-Oophorectomy: Overview, Periprocedural Care, Technique". 7 February 2018. https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1894587-overview. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
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