title: Prophylactic bilateral oophorectomy during vaginal hysterectomy for benign pathology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and safety of vaginal removal of ovaries at the time of vaginal hysterectomy.
  
  
  METHODS
  All patients candidate to hystero-salpingo-oophorectomy by transvaginal approach, between 1 March 2004 and 28 February 2007, were admitted in the study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 472 women included in the study, 432 (91.5%) underwent hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy by vaginal approach. There was only one case of major vessel injury, but no patients required blood transfusion. All the operations were performed only by vaginal route and no conversion to the abdominal route was required.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The need to perform oophorectomy should not be considered a contraindication to vaginal hysterectomy.
authors.affiliation: Ginteam, Unit of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, Corso Marconi 35, Torino, Italy.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Camanni
authors.forename: Emanuela
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mistrangelo
authors.forename: Giorgio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Febo
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ferrero
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Deltetto
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007045:Hysterectomy, Vaginal / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010052:Ovariectomy / Q000379:methods*; D011182:Postoperative Care; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D014591:Uterine Diseases / Q000601:surgery*