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Tips for avoiding nerve injuries in gynecologic surgery
Upper- and lower-extremity injuries can occur during gynecologic surgery. While most of the injuries are transient, sensory injuries that resolve...
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Enhanced recovery pathways in gynecology
Enhanced recovery protocols are diverse but have common themes of avoiding preoperative fasting and bowel preparation, early oral intake, limiting...
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The role of lymphadenectomy in endometrial cancer, Part 1
Proponents of lymphadenectomy cite the need for accurate staging to guide adjuvant therapies and to eradicate metastatic lymph nodes. But...
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Management of adnexal masses in pregnancy
The majority of adnexal masses identified in pregnancy are benign simple cysts measuring less than 5 cm in diameter. Approximately 70% of cystic...
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Understanding ovarian germ cell neoplasms
Management of malignant germ cell neoplasms generally includes fertility-sparing surgery – with or without neoadjuvant combination bleomycin,...
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High-grade cervical dysplasia in pregnancy
Pregnancy is a convenient time to capture women for cervical cancer screening given the increased contact with health care providers. Routine...
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A trip through the history of gynecologic oncology
The subspecialty was formalized less than 50 years ago with the creation of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology and subspecialty training and...
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Managing menopause symptoms in gynecologic cancer survivors
Due to advancements in surgical treatment, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, gynecologic cancer survival rates are continuing to improve and...
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Managing menopausal symptoms after risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy
Since these women undergo surgical menopause as opposed to natural menopause, they have an abrupt loss in hormones, and due to their younger age...
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Vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia: Changing terms and therapy trends
There has been an increase in the incidence of vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia in younger women in recent decades thought be to be secondary to...
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Recognizing and treating vulvar cancer
While vulvar cancer is a rare gynecologic malignancy, it can be devastating for patients and families, especially at late stages. Early diagnosis...
