Low Cost Adaptive Uterine Manipulator for Pelvic Laparoscopic Surgery

In this article we’ll present an original uterine manipulator, very useful for pelvic surgery, especially for laparoscopic hysterectomies. There is a great diversity of uterine manipulators at present on the medical market, whichever making a manipulation of the uterus, a vaginal defining the seabed bag, ensuring the definition of anatomical elements for a quick and safe intervention. They can be for a single use or sterilizable, they have different degrees of constructive complexity and different reliability. Every manipulator type has specific advantages and disadvantages compared to others. Our uterine manipulator has also some specific advantages over the manipulators we find on the market. These other uterine manipulators are briefly presented in the first section of the paper, for comparison reasons. Then our uterine manipulator and its parts are presented in details. Its advantages are: adaptive cup size and position, unbreakable, easy to clean and sterilize not conductive cup, increased reliability, low cost etc. This original uterine manipulator was used in many types of pelvic and uterine surgery, where it proved to be very effective and reliable. The paper presents also some pictures taken from these surgeries.