OPERATIVE GYNECOLOGY

Practical and Operative Gynecology

Hospital morbidity due to post-operative infections in obstetrics & gynecology.

OBJECTIVE To study the incidence and risk factors for postoperative infection following cesarean sections and major gynecological surgery. METHODS Postoperative infection was documented in the specified registers in all patients following cesarean sections and major gynecological surgery from January 1997 to December 1998. This study was a part of the prospective analysis of hospital-based mo...

Adhesions are the major cause of complications in operative gynecology.

Adhesion formation has been found to be highly prevalent in patients with a history of operations or inflammatory peritoneal processes. These patients are at a high risk of serious intraoperative complications during a subsequent operation if adhesiolysis is performed. These complications include bowel perforation, ureteral or bladder injury, and vascular injury. In order to minimize the risk o...

Comprehensive Gynecology

Comprehensive Gynecology is a new and opportune addition to the current selection of textbooks in the area of care of the female patient. The text is the in toto contribution of four distinguished chairmen of departments of obstetrics and gynecology located across the country, who dispense with the usual format of a multi-editor, multi-author compilation. Each is a leader in his own field of in...

Conservative Gynecology

cases are " notoriously maltreated at present by methods almost invariably involving the sacrifice of organs," or that " women by the score, without previous attempt to cure, are persuaded to undergo operations dangerous to life and unwarranted bj' sound judgment, and which are followed by life-long consequences in them that are either carefully concealed, or else carelessly withheld from their...