OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence, indications, risk factors, and complications of emergency peripartum hysterectomy (EPH) and to evaluate total versus subtotal hysterectomy for EPH. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective case series involving thorough examination of the files of all women who had EPH between January 2000 and December 2012 in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecol...

Background: Laparoscopic hysterectomy is a well established method, with numerous described variat ions of this technique. The attempt to minimize operati ve ports has led to the descr ipt ion of a “single puncture laparoscopic hysterectomy”. The transumbil ical use of an electromechanical morcellator to faci l itate extraction of the uterus is f irst descr ibed here, in a ser ies of patients h...

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness, safety, and cost effectiveness of electromechanical morcellation of the uterus and adnexae to enhance laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy (LSH). Design: Forty-one consecutive cases of LSH with and without adnexectomy were reviewed. Each case utilized an electromechanical morcellator to accomplish laparoscopic removal of the uterus and adnexae. Setti...

Objectives: The aim of the current study is to examine changes in sexual function, incontinence and quality of life after hysterectomy, with particular regard to different surgical methods of hysterectomy. Material and methods: A total number of 210 women with hysterectomy were asked to answer the questionnaire between 2011 and 2013; 164 of them accepted to cooperate. Twenty-one women were excl...