K. Semm

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of laparoscopic and laparotomic management of ovarian tumors. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis (Canadian Task Force classification II-2). SETTING: University-affiliated hospital. PA…

BACKGROUND: The laparoscopic management of suspicious adnexal masses and early ovarian malignancies is discussed with the aim of maintaining accepted oncologic treatment principles. Comparative survival data of patients with gynecological m…

SummaryWe conducted a retrospective chart review on the first 24 cases of total uterine mucosal ablation (TUMA), a technique of endometrial excision under pelviscopic control, which was introduced by Semm in 1992 [18]. The procedures were p…

Indications for the 346 hysterectomies performed in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Kiel in the years 1991 till 1994 were myomas with pain, hypermenorrhoea, menorrhagia, recurrent bleedings and endometriosis. The a…

Between September 1991 and December 1993, 253 patients were operated on using the Classical Intrafascial SEMM (Serrated Edged Macro Morcellator) Hysterectomy (CISH) technique. One hundred fifty-two patients were assigned to pelviscopic CISH…

In 1988 and 1989 176 patients underwent pelviscopy at the Kiel University Hospital of Gynaecology for primary or secondary sterility of at least 12 months duration. 120 patients (68%) filled in a questionnaire on the therapeutic results aft…

Coagulation and vaporization of tissue are techniques applied in pelviscopic surgery in order to achieve hemostasis as well as cut and destroy endometriotic implants. An animal experimental study was devised to show if there is a difference…

As a result of experience with more than 16,000 pelviscopic operative procedures performed at the Kiel University Women's Clinic from 1971 to 1988 which in this time had been adapted and used around the world, it may be said that the pelvis…

Pelviscopy, along with the entire concept of minimally invasive surgery through endoscopically guided intra-abdominal surgery, has become a mainstay in gynecologic surgery. The review of instrumentation in this field includes comments on th…

Pelviscopy, along with the entire concept of minimally invasive surgery through endoscopically guided intra-abdominal surgery, has become a mainstay in gynecologic surgery. The review of instrumentation in this field includes comments on th…

In 500 non-selected conservative pelviscopic operations the incidence of the presence of intraabdominal adhesions were compared in patients having had no previous operations, those having had a previous pelviscopy, those having had a previo…

In analyzing 500 consecutive pelviscopies performed at the University Women's Clinic in Kiel in 1988, 310 patients had undergone either diagnostic or operative procedures on the ovary, i.e. pelviscopy in the case of an ovarian tumor. 95.5% …

Adenomatous hyperplasia of the endometrium requires either gestagen treatment or hysterectomy, depending on the patient's age and grade of hyperplasia. 51 patients, in whom adenomatous hyperplasia of grade I-III had been ascertained by cure…

30 patients who had been hysterectomized at the Kiel University Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and 83 patients who had undergone tubal sterilization by monopolar high frequency current or by endocoagulation according to Semm, were inv…

Previous studies have shown that simple hysterectomy with both ovaries left intact may cause ovarian failure. Questionnaires on climacteric symptoms were mailed to 243 patients between 27 and 42 years old who had been hysterectomized during…

Diseases affecting the female reproductive organs often raise differential-diagnostic problems in the field of gastroenterology. Diagnostic pelviscopy represents the most reliable means for the diagnostic clarification of alterations of the…

These newly developed endoscopic methods in gynaecology for haemostasis during surgical pelviscopy (Endocoagulation Roeder-loop ligation, endoligature, endo-suture with intra- and extracorporeal knotting) make it possible to carry out appen…

Modern technique leads to abdominal surgery under "miniature" conditions. The combination of electrically monitored pneumaperitoneum, cold light optic, new mini-instruments, the newly developed hemostatic procedure "endocoagulation" (the pa…