title: Surgical treatment for salpingo-oophoritis patients.
abstract: In the past, the established methods of surgical treatment for salpingo-oophoritis were extraperitoneal drainage of a pelvic abscess or total abdominal and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. Increasing awareness of the role of anaerobic bacteria and changes in antibiotic-prescription patterns have modified the clinical response of some patients. In patients with a unilateral tuboovarian abscess, unilateral removal of the adnexa suffices.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009869:Oophoritis / Q000601:surgery*; D012488:Salpingitis / Q000601:surgery*