Laparoscopic Risk-Reducing Salpingo-Oophorectomy: The Brigham and Women's Experience

Table 4

Surgical variables of 351 patients who underwent laparoscopic RRSO.

	𝑁=351
Number of ports
2	2 (0.6%)
3	287 (81.8%)
4	53 (15.1%)
5	9 (2.6%)
Scope Size
5 mm	296 (84.3%)
10 mm	55 (15.7%)
Entrance to peritoneal cavity
Veress	320 (91.2%)
Open	31 (8.8%)
Energy source
Ligasure	303 (86.3%)
Gyrus	47 (13.4%)
Ligasure and Gyrus	1 (0.3%)
Estimated blood loss (cc)
< 50	340 (96.9%)
50–150	8
>150	3
Status of adhesions
Absent	287 (81.8%)
Present	64 (18.2%)