SPONTANEOUS PAN-HYSTERECTOMY AFTER ABDOMINAL CONTUSION

Dextromethorphan and pain after total abdominal hysterectomy.

Dextromethorphan is an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist which has been shown to inhibit the development of cutaneous secondary hyperalgesia after tissue trauma. We studied 60 ASA I-II patients undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Patients received either dextromethorphan 27 mg capsules, two doses before operation and thr...

Sclerosing Encapsulating Peritonitis (Abdominal Cocoon) after Abdominal Hysterectomy

Sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis (SEP) is a poorly understood and rarely documented cause of small bowel obstruction. Although recurrent peritonitis has been reported as the main contributory factor leading to secondary SEP, the pathogenesis of primary (idiopathic) SEP is still uncertain. A 40-year-old woman with a history of total abdominal hysterectomy due to gestational trophoblastic dis...

Comparison of laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy and total abdominal hysterectomy

  Abstract   Background: Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgery procedure   done after cesarean section by gynecologists in many countries and the most common   procedure is total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH). The incidence of laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) performed for benign lesions has progressively increased in recent years. Our objective was to compare...

Radical Abdominal Hysterectomy

Laparoscopic Hysterectomy, Total Abdominal Hysterectomy, Vaginal Hysterectomy; Uk Study

For much of the twentieth century hysterectomy has stood as one of the cornerstones of gynaecological surgery. There has been a relatively stable and effective approach to technique and all gynaecologists were trained to master the abdominal and vaginal approaches and their relative advantages and indications. If anything any controversy associated with hysterectomy has been related to the fate...