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The Lancet

Volume 304, Issue 7887, 26 October 1974, Pages 983-985
The Lancet

A POST-HYSTERECTOMY SYNDROME

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Abstract

Fifty-six women who had had a hysterectomy in the previous five years and fifty-six women who had had other operations answered a specially designed questionary. The results showed that hysterectomy is more commonly followed by several distressing symptoms than other operations. 70% of the hysterectomy patients had postoperative depression and an almost equal number had hot flushes and urinary symptoms, and experiericed extreme tiredness postoperatively. About half the hysterectomy patients had headaches, dizziness, or insomnia postoperatively, whereas all these symptoms occurred much less often in the women who had had operations other than hysterectomy. Most of these symptoms can be attributed to endocrine imbalance.

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