Twenty hysterectomy specimens were prospectively evaluated after both tubes were fulgurated and transected at the uterine cornua in an attempt to remove the complete fallopian tube simulating the RRSO procedure. Unfixed specimens were processed by a single pathologist who took sequential 3 mm cross sections perpendicular to the long axis of each residual tube beginning at the tubal resection line (or uterine cornua if prior adnexectomy) proceeding toward the uterine cavity