BACKGROUND: More evidence is needed to substantiate current recommendations about removing ovaries during hysterectomy for benign conditions. OBJECTIVE: To compare long-term outcomes in women with and without bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy…
PurposeLarge-scale population-based registry studies investigating the risk of breast cancer after removal of both ovaries at hysterectomy for benign conditions in women with no known genetic predisposition to cancer are needed. We aimed to…
AIM OF THE DATABASE: The steering committee of the Danish Hysterectomy and Hysteroscopy Database (DHHD) has defined the objective of the database: the aim is firstly to reduce complications, readmissions, reoperations; secondly to specify t…
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to determine whether there is an association between hysterectomy and dementia. METHODS: All female Danish residents born before 1966, alive on their 40th birthday and without a dementia diagnosis prior to 1977 …
BACKGROUND: The aim has been to assess the frequency of hysterectomy in relation to sociodemographic characteristics. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional survey of 2,403 women selected at random from the population in the western part …