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*Women get prophylatic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomies and mastectomies. | *Women get prophylatic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomies and mastectomies. | ||
**The pathology yield in bilateral salpingo-oophorectomies is significant but modest; in series of 26 prophylatic surgeries (BRCA1 22 individuals, BRCA2 4 individuals) there were 2 in situ carcinoma and 2 atypical proliferations.<ref name=pmid14668548>{{Cite journal | last1 = Carcangiu | first1 = ML. | last2 = Radice | first2 = P. | last3 = Manoukian | first3 = S. | last4 = Spatti | first4 = G. | last5 = Gobbo | first5 = M. | last6 = Pensotti | first6 = V. | last7 = Crucianelli | first7 = R. | last8 = Pasini | first8 = B. | title = Atypical epithelial proliferation in fallopian tubes in prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy specimens from BRCA1 and BRCA2 germline mutation carriers. | journal = Int J Gynecol Pathol | volume = 23 | issue = 1 | pages = 35-40 | month = Jan | year = 2004 | doi = 10.1097/01.pgp.0000101082.35393.84 | PMID = 14668548 }}</ref> All of the pathology was in BRCA1 carriers. | **The pathology yield in bilateral salpingo-oophorectomies is significant but modest; in series of 26 prophylatic surgeries (BRCA1 22 individuals, BRCA2 4 individuals) there were 2 in situ carcinoma and 2 atypical proliferations.<ref name=pmid14668548>{{Cite journal | last1 = Carcangiu | first1 = ML. | last2 = Radice | first2 = P. | last3 = Manoukian | first3 = S. | last4 = Spatti | first4 = G. | last5 = Gobbo | first5 = M. | last6 = Pensotti | first6 = V. | last7 = Crucianelli | first7 = R. | last8 = Pasini | first8 = B. | title = Atypical epithelial proliferation in fallopian tubes in prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy specimens from BRCA1 and BRCA2 germline mutation carriers. | journal = Int J Gynecol Pathol | volume = 23 | issue = 1 | pages = 35-40 | month = Jan | year = 2004 | doi = 10.1097/01.pgp.0000101082.35393.84 | PMID = 14668548 }}</ref> All of the pathology was in BRCA1 carriers. | ||
**In prophylatic procedures, the ovaries and tubes, endometrium, and lower uterine segment should be [[submitted in total]].<ref name=pmid24495259>{{Cite journal | last1 = Downes | first1 = MR. | last2 = Allo | first2 = G. | last3 = McCluggage | first3 = WG. | last4 = Sy | first4 = K. | last5 = Ferguson | first5 = SE. | last6 = Aronson | first6 = M. | last7 = Pollett | first7 = A. | last8 = Gallinger | first8 = S. | last9 = Bilbily | first9 = E. | title = Review of findings in prophylactic gynaecological specimens in Lynch syndrome with literature review and recommendations for grossing. | journal = Histopathology | volume = 65 | issue = 2 | pages = 228-39 | month = Aug | year = 2014 | doi = 10.1111/his.12386 | PMID = 24495259 }}</ref> | **In prophylatic procedures, the ovaries and tubes, endometrium, and lower uterine segment should all be [[submitted in total]].<ref name=pmid24495259>{{Cite journal | last1 = Downes | first1 = MR. | last2 = Allo | first2 = G. | last3 = McCluggage | first3 = WG. | last4 = Sy | first4 = K. | last5 = Ferguson | first5 = SE. | last6 = Aronson | first6 = M. | last7 = Pollett | first7 = A. | last8 = Gallinger | first8 = S. | last9 = Bilbily | first9 = E. | title = Review of findings in prophylactic gynaecological specimens in Lynch syndrome with literature review and recommendations for grossing. | journal = Histopathology | volume = 65 | issue = 2 | pages = 228-39 | month = Aug | year = 2014 | doi = 10.1111/his.12386 | PMID = 24495259 }}</ref> | ||
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