What's the difference between oophorectomy and ovariotomy?

Oophorectomy


Definition:

  • (n.) Ovariotomy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most of these patients had undergone hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy.
  • (2) Primary therapy consisted of surgery, usually unilateral oophorectomy, and cis-platinum-based VAB chemotherapy.
  • (3) Patients without prior chemotherapy with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive and ER-unknown disease were randomized to receive cyclophosphamide, Adriamycin (Adria Laboratories, Columbus, OH), and 5-fluorouracil (CAF) or surgical oophorectomy followed directly by CAF (O + CAF).
  • (4) In the other 4 with presence of estrogen receptor all showed some response to oophorectomy.
  • (5) No relation was found between new symptomatology and the type of hysterectomy, oophorectomy, or the administration of perioperative antibiotics.
  • (6) Tamoxifen is also an active agent for premenopausal metastatic disease, and response rates are comparable to those reported for oophorectomy.
  • (7) A patient with a strongly positive family history underwent a prophylactic oophorectomy and, 5 years later, developed a primary peritoneal papillary serous adenocarcinoma.
  • (8) Seventy-five female patients suffering from advanced breast cancer were treated with toilet mastectomy, radiotherapy and oophorectomy (if premenopausal) or tamoxifen therapy (if postmenopausal) as well as chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, 5-fluorouracil and prednisone.
  • (9) The admitting diagnosis was 33 percent correct.The treatment was individualized with 23 percent receiving total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy.
  • (10) Anderson Hospital had only a unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and are alive and well at the present time.
  • (11) After a supracervical hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, sigmoid loop colostomy, appendectomy, and extensive irrigation and debridement, her condition improved with no recurrence at two-year follow-up.
  • (12) Although primary mucinous carcinoid tumors are generally believed to exhibit more aggressive behavior than other categories of carcinoid tumors, the patient was treated conservatively with a right salpingo-oophorectomy and remains well 3 years later, suggesting that unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and careful follow-up are adequate therapy in a young woman when the tumor is confined to the ovary.
  • (13) She had suffered two attacks of loss of consciousness after bilateral partial oophorectomy at the age of 16.
  • (14) 15 hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy specimens were examined by dissection, after a sterilization procedure had been performed unilaterally, to follow the arterial supply to the adnexa.
  • (15) In contrast, the oophorectomy of diabetic animals produced amelioration of mitochondrial respiration and oscillatory behavior.
  • (16) The frequency of complete response after oophorectomy was significantly higher in patients whose tumors did not express the antigens recognized by antibodies MBrl and MBr8.
  • (17) It seems that there is a difference regarding the prognosis of the pregnancy if luteectomy or oophorectomy is performed where the corpus luteum alone could be dispensed with somewhat earlier.
  • (18) A total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy were performed, and revealed a lipoid cell tumor of the left ovary and right ovarian stromal hyperplasia.
  • (19) Total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy was performed.
  • (20) The second study confirmed a poor detection rate of liver and other intra-abdominal metastases in patients with breast cancer undergoing laparotomy and oophorectomy who were staged immediately before operation.Pre-mastectomy staging laparotomy should be considered in those patients with primary breast cancer who are most likely to have disseminated disease beyond the regional nodes.

Ovariotomy


Definition:

  • (n.) The operation of removing one or both of the ovaries; oophorectomy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In each group 16 females had ovariotomies on dioestrus II between 16 and 17 hours.
  • (2) A significant decrease in early receptivity was noted following bilateral ovariotomy on dioestrus II from 4 to 5 pm.
  • (3) Conservative treatment is only permissible if one is absolutely sure that the contro-lateral ovary is normal, and if there is the slightest doubt ovariotomy should be carried out to perform a biopsy.

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