Bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy

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A 59 year old woman was admitted to the hospital for a scheduled open total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH) with a bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO). The patient also had type 2 diabetes, which was well controlled by insulin. The patient first visited her gynecologist several months ago complaining of postmenopausal vaginal bleeding and abnormal vaginal discharge. An endometrial biopsy was taken in the office and was suggestive of uterine cancer. The TAH-BSO was performed, and the following postoperative diagnoses were recorded by the physician: Stage I endometrial adenocarcinoma (corpus uteri) and bilateral corpus luteum cysts of the ovaries, worse on the right side, fallopian tubes appeared normal. The patient continued to receive insulin while in the hospital.

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