background:   objective: it was investigated whether methylprednisolone had a favorable effect on osteoporotic bone tissue in oophorectomy induced osteoporotic rats whose endogenous adrenaline levels are suppressed with metyrosine.   materials and methods: bone mineral density, number of osteoblast-osteoclast, bone osteocalcin levels and alkaline phosphatase (alp) measurements were performed. o...

Ovarian Remnant syndrome (ORS) is the presence of residual ovarian tissue after an oophorectomy was performed whether associated with a hysterectomy or not. We report case 39-year-old woman past surgical history total abdominal and left salpingo-oophorectomy indication placenta accreta incidentally discovered during caesarian section. The patient presented pelvic pain diagnosed ORS. She success...

tubal pregnancies are common but presence of hydatidiform mole in tube is a rare entity. a woman of 53years presented with acute abdomen, preoperative pregnancy test was positive and ultrasonography suspected the case as hydatidiform mole in right tube. the patient was treated with total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy as her family was completed. subsequent histopat...

Prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy (PO) entails removal of the ovaries prior to the clinical occurrence of cancer. Prophylactic removal of the ovaries, during hysterectomy or other abdominal surgery, to prevent ovarian cancer in postmenopausal women was popularised in the 1940s by Crossen, who stated “the involuting ovaries have fulfilled their reproductive and endocrine function. They are....v...

To cite: Hillier-Smith R. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2014-205975 DESCRIPTION A 38-year-old woman underwent a laparoscopic oophorectomy using a harmonic scalpel to remove a 8×10 cm cyst. Four days after the procedure she presented to A&E with sharp increasing lower abdominal pain associated with fever, reduced appetite, constipation, dysuria a...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether a modified technique for laparoscopic extracorporal oophorectomy is less complicated and safer than traditional laparoscopic oophorectomy. METHODS Four obese patients in their second trimester underwent open laparoscopy for treatment of large ovarian cysts. A Cook Ob/Gyn special cyst aspirator with a 14-gauge aspirating needle was inserted into the abdomen to d...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the cross-sectional associations of hysterectomy and oophorectomy status, chronological age, and body mass index with early postoperative plasma levels of total and free T, DHEAS, and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG). DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING University hospital. PATIENT(S) Ninety-two women age 35-47 years who were scheduled for hysterectomy and/...