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  2. List of medical abbreviations: T - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export ... total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy: TAP: ... transvaginal hysterectomy: TVT: tension-free vaginal tape

  3. ICD-9-CM Volume 3 - Wikipedia

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    ICD-9-CM Volume 3 is a system of procedural codes used by health insurers to classify medical procedures for billing purposes. It is a subset of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) 9-CM. Volumes 1 and 2 are used for diagnostic codes.

  4. Salpingectomy - Wikipedia

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    If a BSO is combined with an abdominal hysterectomy (there are different methods of hysterectomy available), the procedure is commonly called a TAH-BSO: total abdominal hysterectomy with a bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. Sexual intercourse remains possible after salpingectomy, surgical and radiological cancer treatments, and chemotherapy.

  5. Hysterectomy - Wikipedia

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    Vaginal hysterectomy is recommended over other variants where possible for women with benign diseases. [71] [72] [83] Vaginal hysterectomy was shown to be superior to LAVH and some types of laparoscopic surgery causing fewer short- and long-term complications, more favorable effect on sexual experience with shorter recovery times and fewer costs.

  6. Oophorectomy - Wikipedia

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    Most bilateral oophorectomies (63%) are performed without any medical indication, and most (87%) are performed together with a hysterectomy. [10] Conversely, unilateral oophorectomy is commonly performed for a medical indication (73%; cyst, endometriosis, benign tumor, inflammation, etc.) and less commonly in conjunction with hysterectomy (61%).

  7. Prophylactic salpingectomy - Wikipedia

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    Interim procedure in women with BRCA1/2 mutations, enabling them to delay oophorectomy [3] [4] In 2013, the SGO released a clinical practice statement recommending that a bilateral salpingectomy should be considered “at the time of abdominal or pelvic surgery, hysterectomy, or in lieu of tubal ligation”.

  8. Salpingo-oophorectomy - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, salpingo-oophorectomy is the removal of an ovary and its fallopian tube. [1] [2] 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 ...

  9. List of -ectomies - Wikipedia

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    Salpingo-oophorectomy is the removal of the ovary and the fallopian tube together, when both left and right tubes and ovaries are removed, this is referred to as a bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. Scaphoidectomy [2] Septectomy is the removal of a septum. Splenectomy is the surgical removal of the spleen.