The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between postoperative abdominal incision problems and opening subcutaneous tissues with electrocautery or scalpel. Women scheduled for elective abdominal hysterectomy who gave informed consent were randomly assigned to subcutaneous abdominal wall tissue incision by electrocautery or scalpel. Postoperative abdominal wound problem diagnos...

BACKGROUND Use of morcellation during laparoscopic hysterectomy may result in seeding of uterine tissue throughout the abdominal cavity and development of 'iatrogenic' leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata. CASE Two years after a supracervical laparoscopic hysterectomy a 42-year-old parous women presented with abdominal pain and bloating. CT scans and subsequent surgical exploration reveled...

The aim of the study was to review the operative experiences of emergency hysterectomy for life-threatening postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) performed over a 12-year period at Fujian Provincial Maternity and Children's Hospital; to examine the incidence and risk factors for emergency obstetric hysterectomy; and to evaluate the curative effectiveness and safety of subtotal hysterectomy for life-threa...

BACKGROUND Pregnancy after hysterectomy is very rare, with fewer than 40 cases reported in the English-language literature. The majority of cases are diagnosed in the early posthysterectomy, postoperative period, indicating that the pregnancy was present at the time of hysterectomy. Cases diagnosed remotely from the time of hysterectomy result from a fistulous tract allowing sperm access to the...

objective: to compare the efficacy of intravenous and intraperitoneal injection of lidocaine and normal saline in relieving postoperative pain after elective abdominal hysterectomy. materials and methods: for this double-blind randomized controlled study 109 patients undergoing elective abdominal hysterectomy were randomly allocated to three groups :1) iv group (intravenous injection group) rec...

Lithopedion is a rare obstetrical outcome of an undiagnosed and untreated advanced abdominal pregnancy, mostly found incidentally. We present a case of lithopedion. In a 76 year-old female suffering from cervical neoplasm, total abdominal hysterectomy was performed for the lesion and the lithopedion was found incidentally. The patient's history was unremarkable, and laboratory tests were normal...

UNLABELLED Placenta praevia/accreta is associated with significant maternal morbidity and mortality and is a common cause of obstetric hysterectomy. This paper describes posterior retrograde abdominal hysterectomy, a new surgical technique for caesarean hysterectomy, in 11 women with placenta percreta, increta or accreta There were no intraoperative or postoperative maternal complications, and ...

Laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy refers to the use of a laparoscope to allow the performance of hysterectomy through a vaginal means that would have otherwise required an abdominal approach. Laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy refers to removal of the uterus utilizing a laparoscope but leaving the cervix in place. Laparoscopic myomectomy refers to removal of fibroid tumors from th...