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'''Prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy''' are done to prevent the development of cancer - when there is a genetic predisposition. | '''Prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy''' are done to prevent the development of cancer - when there is a genetic predisposition. | ||
==General== | |||
*The pathology yield in ''prophylactic 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. | |||
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