Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy: 10 Steps Toward a Successful Procedure
Vaginal and laparoscopic hysterectomies have been clearly associated with decreased blood loss, shorter hospital stay, speedier return to normal activities, and fewer abdominal wall infections when compared with abdominal hysterectomies. In this review, the authors outline the 10 steps to a successful laparoscopic hysterectomy.
Hysterectomy is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures in the United States, with 570,000 cases performed in 2006. 1 Vaginal hysterectomies have been performed successfully for almost 2 centuries, and more recently Reich and colleagues 2 introduced the laparoscopic hysterectomy. However, despite the advent of these minimally invasive procedures, abdominal hysterectomy remains the most common surgical approach, with well over half of hysterectomies being performed via a laparotomy …[see more]
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