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Hysterectomy (cont.)

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hysterectomy, total abdominal hysterectomy, supracervical or subtotal hysterectomy, radical hysterectomy, vaginal hysterectomy, laparoscopic hysterectomy, LH, laparoscopy-assisted vaginal hysterectomy, LAVH, oophorectomy, removal of the uterus, removal of the ovaries, removal of an ovary, removal of the Fallopian tubes

Author and Editor

Author: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD

Editor: Mary D. Nettleman, MD, MS, MCAP, Professor and Chair of Medicine, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

REFERENCE: eMedicine.com. "Hysterectomy."
<http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/267273-overview>


Last Editorial Review: 2/1/2010 3:58:52 PM

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