OBJECTIVE To assess the outcome of patients who underwent a tension-free vaginal tape sling procedure alone versus patients who underwent concomitant pelvic floor surgery. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Urogynaecology unit of a university teaching hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Patients diagnosed with moderate-to-severe urodynamic stress incontinence and underwent a tension-fre...

Vaginal surgery is an integral part of managing the female patient with pelvic disorders. From the widely performed midurethral sling to reconstruction of pelvic organ prolapse, Vaginal Surgery for the Urologist provides an in depth and step by step explanation of the procedures involved. Moreover, review of each relevant anatomy helps the reader better understand an often difficult but essenti...

As one of the author states in the book, surgery through the vagina is the most minimally invasive way to perform almost all gynecologic operations. In this light, it is important for surgeons in this field to be familiar with the vaginal and pelvic anatomy and the nuances involved in performing surgery through the vaginal route. Advances in Reconstructive Vaginal Surgery is a comprehensive tex...

Background We aimed to investigate the effect of vaginal stump ligation in laparoscopic cervical cancer surgery on the prevention of cancer cell detachment. Methods The study was conducted from 2010 to 2015, in Xuzhou Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Jiangsu Province, China. Seventeen cases of laparoscopic surgery of cervical cancer in control group were observed, and the vaginal stu...

BACKGROUND Traditional practice after vaginal hysterectomy was to keep the vaginal pack and urinary catheter for 24 hours post operatively. But there were studies that prolonged cathterisation was associated with urinary infection. So this study was conducted to compare the post operative outcome when the urinary catheter and vaginal pack were removed after 3 hours and after 24 hours after surg...

OBJECTIVE To describe the use of vaginal, abdominal and laparoscopic hysterectomy in Denmark from 1999 to 2008, the influence of national guidelines and the patient and procedure-related characteristics associated with the choice of vaginal hysterectomy. Design. Nationwide register-based cohort study. SETTING Danish Hysterectomy Database and Danish National Patient Registry. POPULATION All ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy and safety of vaginal misoprostol after a pretreatment with vaginal estradiol to facilitate the hysteroscopic surgery in postmenopausal women. METHODS In this observational comparative study, 35 control women (group A) did not receive any pharmacological treatment,26 women (group B) received 25 µg of vaginal estradiol daily for 14 days and 400 µg of vaginal mi...