Objective: To estimate the incidence, indications, risk factors, and complications of peripartum hysterectomy in a university clinic and a state hospital in the Lakes region of Anatolia. Design: Retrospective clinical study. Setting: This retrospective study was conducted between December 1996 and December 2005 at the Süleyman Demirel University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics an...

BACKGROUND Hysterectomy is the commonest major gynaecological surgery. Although there are many approaches to hysterectomy, which depend on clinical criteria, certain patients may be eligible to be operated in any of the several available approaches. However, most comparative studies on hysterectomy are between two approaches. There is also a relative absence of data on long-term outcomes on qua...

BACKGROUND Hysterectomy is among the most common surgeries performed on U.S. women. For benign conditions, minimally invasive hysterectomy is recommended, whenever permitted by clinical indication and previous surgery history. No study has examined whether the use of less invasive hysterectomy spread more slowly for Black women. METHODS We used the hysterectomy that occurs in outpatient setti...

PURPOSE The purpose of this meta-analysis was to determine the strength of the association between gynecologic surgeries, tubal ligation and hysterectomy, and ovarian cancer. METHODS We searched the PubMed, Web of Science, and Embase databases for all English-language articles dated between 1969 through March 2011 using the keywords "ovarian cancer" and "tubal ligation" or "tubal sterilizatio...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare operative time and intra- and postoperative complications between total laparoscopic hysterectomy and robotic-assisted total laparoscopic hysterectomy. STUDY DESIGN This study was a blinded, prospective randomized controlled trial conducted at 2 institutions. Subjects consisted of women who planned laparoscopic hysterectomy for benign indicat...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate morphology and frequency of lower genital infections in (post hysterectomy) vault smears of women. METHODS We analyzed vault smears from 500 women who had undergone hysterectomy, either for benign diseases (230) or for carcinoma cervix (270) and findings were compared with Pap smear diagnosis of non-hysterectomy subjects. RESULTS Majority 432/500 (87%) of the vault sme...

Radical hysterectomy in early cervical cancer less than 2 cm is associated with specific morbidity. Urinary disorders are often noticed and can depend on pelvic plexus nerve injuries. The purpose was to compare surgical and short-term outcomes, as well as urinary disorders between robotic-assisted nerve-sparing radical hysterectomy and laparoscopic no nerve-sparing radical hysterectomy. The fir...

OBJECTIVES Post tubal ligation syndrome (PTLS) is a term used to describe a variety of post tubal ligation side effects or symptoms. These include increased menstrual bleeding and hysterectomy. Whether or not post tubal syndrome is a real entity, it has been a subject of controversy in the medical literature for decades. Numerous studies have reported conflicting conclusions about these symptom...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Despite the prevalence of hysterectomy for treatment of benign gynecologic conditions, providers nationwide have been slow to adopt minimally-invasive surgical techniques. Our objective is to investigate the impact of a department for minimally invasive gynecologic surgery (MIGS) on the rate of laparoscopic hysterectomy at an academic community hospital without robotic ...

Objectives: To compare the frequency of satisfactory quality life between vaginal hysterectomy and abdominal hysterectomy. Study Design: Randomized controlled trial. Place Duration Study: Department Obstetrics Gynecology, Niazi Medical & Dental College, Sargodha from 1st April 2020 to 31st December 2020. Methodology: Ninety patients were comprised they divided in two groups; group A (vagina...