Salpingoophorectomy

Salpingoophorectomy
Intervention
ICD-9-CM 65.4, 65.6

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

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

An article describing this procedure has been entered under oophorectomy.