A Review of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery in Developing Nations

Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery

Minimally Invasive Surgery in Gynecologic Oncology

Minimally invasive surgery has been utilized in the field of obstetrics and gynecology as far back as the 1940s when culdoscopy was first introduced as a visualization tool. Gynecologists then began to employ minimally invasive surgery for adhesiolysis and obtaining biopsies but then expanded its use to include procedures such as tubal sterilization (Clyman (1963), L. E. Smale and M. L. Smale (...

Role of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery in Adults with Degenerative Lumbar Scoliosis: A Narrative Review

Background and Aim: Degenerative lumbar scoliosis is a spinal deformity resulting from advanced disc degeneration and facet arthropathy. Given the inconclusive available literature and lack of high-quality data supporting the role of minimally invasive surgical management of degenerative lumbar scoliosis, this review intends to highlight and compare the various viable minimally invasive surgica...

Role of minimally invasive surgery in gynecologic cancers.

The role of minimally invasive surgery in the management of gynecologic cancers continues to expand. Radical vaginal trachelectomy with laparoscopic pelvic lymphadenectomy has emerged as a safe, reasonable option for women with early-stage cervical cancer desiring fertility preservation. Similarly, laparoscopically assisted radical vaginal hysterectomy has been systematically described, is feas...

Minilaparotomy: a minimally invasive alternative for major gynecologic abdominal surgery.

Mark H Glasser, MD, is the Chief of the Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Rafael, California. E-mail: [email protected]. Presented at the Global Congress of Gynecologic Endoscopy, the 33rd Annual meeting of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists, San Francisco, California, November 10-13, 2004, and published in abstract form in J Am Asso...