Study Suggests Benefit for Salpingectomy

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NEW ORLEANS -- Offering women bilateral salpingectomy with preservation of ovaries as part of hysterectomy may reduce their risk of developing adnexal masses, researchers reported here.
In a single center study, the bilateral salpingectomy rates rose from 2.9% in 2009 and 2010, to 26% in 2011, when the center began offering bilateral salpingectomy to all women undergoing hysterectomy with ovary preservation. The salpingectomy rate jumped to 73% in the first 6 months of 2012, Susan K. Park, MD, of Olive View-UCLA Medical Center and colleagues, reported at the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists meeting...........