INTRODUCTION Genital cancers benefit from standardized treatment plans which include: surgery and radio chemotherapy.Lately, treatments involving thermal ablations have entered the clinical use, as they destroy the tumors by the use of different energy sources. Our study aims at establishing a precise role of RFA in current treatment protocols of cancer of the uterine cervix. MATERIAL AND MET...

Aim. To describe a new technique of uterine manipulation in laparoscopic management of pelvic cancers. Material and Methods. We used a novel uterine hitch technique in 23 patients from May 2008 to October 2008. These patients underwent pelvic oncologic surgery including laparoscopic radical hysterectomy (n = 7), laparoscopic anterior resection (n = 4), laparoscopic abdominoperineal resection (n...

OBJECTIVES Pelvic floor prolapse is a frequent condition in the woman, which in addition to anatomical alterations, may cause lower urinary tract dysfunction. We intend to verify the alterations of the micturation phase in patients with pelvic prolapse. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional cut off study was performed in a series of 102 women, mean age 66.8 years (standard deviation 9.6 year...

Gastric bypass is one of the most frequently performed surgical procedures in bariatric surgery. A neoplasm within the gastric pouch is a somewhat infrequent complication but with important survival consequences. We present the case of a 51-year-old woman who developed an adenocarcinoma in the bypassed stomach three years after bariatric surgery; the tumour was incidentally discovered after gyn...

INTRODUCTION The Postpartum bleeding is the first cause of maternal mortality in Morocco. It is an obstetrical emergency that requires a fast multimodal management including medical care, interventional procedure and in few cases a salvatory surgery. CLINICAL CASE We report a rare case of uterine necrosis following postpartum hemorrhage, refractory to medical therapy, and which was controlled...

Background: Hysterectomy is a common gynecological surgery worldwide. Thorough preoperative clinical and radiological assessment of the patients followed by histopathological evaluation specimens mandatory for providing good health care services to patients. Objective: The objective study was analyze spectrum findings in hysterectomy & correlate them with their findings. Patients Methods: T...

BACKGROUND We assessed the results and impact of blockage of utero-ovarian anastomoses (UOA) on clinical outcome in women treated by laparoscopic uterine artery occlusion for uterine fibroids. METHODS Between 2004 and 2005, we prospectively analyzed the clinical data for 23 laparoscopic uterine artery occlusion cases combined with blockage of utero-ovarian anastomoses (Group A) and 67 laparos...

Objective Isthmoceles have been described as complications associated to caesarean section (CS). Only symptomatic isthmoceles should be treated. The main symptoms are abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) in abscense of any other causes, pelvic pain and secondary infertility. There are several techniques described for the correction of isthmoceles. Isthmoplasty can be performed by hysteroscopy, lapar...

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of hysteroscopic adhesiolysis and subsequent fertility in patients with adhesions stage 3 and 4. DESIGN: A retrospective cohort study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2). SETTING: A tertiary referral center for hysteroscopic surgery. PATIENTS: Seventy-one patients with intrauterine permanent adhesions. INTERVENTIONS: Hysteroscopic surgery with mon...