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Laparoscopically performed supracervical hysterectomy is becoming more widely accepted around the world. The objective of this case report is to describe a rare urinary tract complication associated with this operation. Case report. Referra…
The effective removal of endometriosis is the major aim of physicians treating patients with pelvic pain. This can now be accomplished long-term as effectively at laparoscopy as at laparotomy (Wheeler and Malinak, 1987; Redwine, 1991; Marti…
Lasers have now been used laparoscopically in infertility surgery for over a decase. Use of the CO 2 laser at laparoscopy began independently in France, Israel and North America. Investigators have subsequently reported use of the argon, Nd…
Forty-seven patients underwent laser laparoscopic management of endometriomas from 3 to 12 cm in diameter. Eighteen patients had infertility, 15 had pelvic pain, and 14 had both. The types of laser used were the carbon dioxide, argon, and p…
Women's Health Research and Education Foundation, HCA West Side Hospital, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
Many gynaecologist are now doing more aggressive operative laparoscopic surgery. We feel that procedures which in the past required open laparotomy to be successfully performed, can now be done with fibreoptic laser energy. This chapter rev…
A major advantage of the KTP/532 laser in laparoscopic reproductive pelvic surgery is the ability to transmit the laser energy through a flexible fiber which can be easily directed at a lesion. It has recently been evaluated for the laparos…
High-volume intravenous urography was performed in 63 women with surgically proven endometriosis. Subtle abnormalities were found in 15.9% of these women. No patient had urologic symptoms, and there was no evidence of hydroureter or uretera…
Gynecologists perform two operative endoscopic procedures - hysteroscopy and laparoscopy. Several surgical lasers have now been used for laparoscopic operations and the Nd:YAG and CO2 lasers have been used at hysteroscopy. This article desc…
The role of combined laparoscopic surgery and postoperative danazol treatment for endometriosis in infertile patients has been reviewed in 66 cases. Thirty-five patients with mild endometriosis and twenty-five patients with moderate endomet…
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, Tennessee