Showing papers by "Barbara A. Goff published in 2001"

TL;DR: Two patients undergoing surgical prophylaxis to address an increase in ovarian cancer risk were discovered to harbor occult primary fallopian tube carcinoma on final pathology review, and Mutational analysis confirmed the presence of a deleterious mutation in BRCA-1 in both patients.

TL;DR: Surgical bench laboratory tasks can assess residents' surgical skills with good reliability and validity on most tasks, and may provide an alternative means to assess surgical skills.

TL;DR: The less costly and more portable bench station objective structured assessment of technical skills can reliably and validly assess the surgical skills of gynecology residents and may become a mechanism to certify surgical skill competence.

TL;DR: The expression of LRP, MRP, and p27 is significantly different in ovarian cancers compared with normal ovaries; however, LRP and MRP expression are not prognostic for chemosensitivity.