Indications for Oophorectomy and Adnexectomy
Oophorectomy is indicated for suspicious or growing adnexal masses, reduces repeat surgery for endometriosis, but ovarian conservation is often preferable due to negative long-term health outcomes.
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This Springer chapter reviews indications for oophorectomy and adnexectomy in the context of pelvic surgery, discussing decisions for adnexal masses suspicious for malignancy, masses that grow or become more complex on serial ultrasound, and management of adnexal torsion. It reports that torsion is usually managed with detorsion rather than adnexectomy, and that oophorectomy reduces the likelihood of repeat surgery in women with severe, symptomatic endometriosis. A key limitation is that the chapter is not a single new study and is largely a narrative clinical synthesis rather than providing new quantitative patient-level results. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it explicitly states that oophorectomy decreases the likelihood of repeat surgery in women with severe, symptomatic endometriosis.
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