Salpingoophorectomy

Salpingoophorectomy
Intervention
ICD-9-CM 65.4, 65.6

In medicine, salpingoophorectomy is the removal of an ovary and its fallopian tube.

This spelling: "salpingoophorectomy," is a correct and accepted spelling, but much less common than "salpingo-oophorectomy."

For more details on this topic, see oophorectomy.


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