INTRODUCTION Rates and routes of hysterectomy have implications for quality, costs and training. This study analyzed rates of benign hysterectomy and surgical approaches for benign hysterectomy in Austria from 2002 to 2014. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was a population-based retrospective observational study of coding data from all acute care hospitals (public and private) in Austria. Main outco...

Vaginal cuff dehisence with bowel evisceration after hysterectomy is a very rare complication. However, the incidance of this complication appears to be increased with the widely used techniques of laparoscopic surgery especially with robotic hysterectomy. In this case report we aimed to evaluate the risk factors and treatment methods for this complication.

IMPLICATIONS OF HYSTEROCTOMY ON VAGINAL ROUTE IN GYNECOLOGIC PATHOLOGY (Abstract): Vaginal hysterectomy was mentioned before our era by Soranus of Ephesus, and it is one of the most frequent surgical interventions in gynecologic practice; performed for the first time by Sauter of Constance, in 1822, who practiced a vaginal hysterectomy without ligation of vessels, carrying out the hemostasis wi...

BACKGROUND Hysterectomy is one of the most performed surgical procedures during lifetime. Almost 10 % of women who have had a hysterectomy because of prolapse symptoms, will visit a gynaecologist for a surgical correction of a vaginal vault prolapse thereafter. Vaginal vault prolapse can be corrected by many different surgical procedures. A Cochrane review comparing abdominal sacrocolpopexy to ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Transvaginal uterine morcellation has been described in the literature for more than a century. Despite an extensive body of literature documenting its safety and feasibility, concerns about morcellating occult malignant entities have raised questions regarding this technique. In this study, we looked at a single teaching institution's experience with transvaginal morc...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the association between obesity and the recent trends of routes chosen for hysterectomy performed for benign indications in the United States. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using the American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Quality Improvement Project's database, patients who underwent hysterectomy for benign indications from 2005 to 2011 were identified by International C...

BackgroundThere is a national shift toward laparoscopic hysterectomy as the predominant form of minimally invasive hysterectomy. Previous research suggests that vaginal associated with lower operative time and improved outcomes; however, this has not been validated in modern cohort women.ObjectiveThis analysis aims to evaluate whether total remains times fewer postoperative complications than o...

We report 190 cases where laparoscopy assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) was used as a primary procedure when the patients were not suitable candidates for a vaginal hysterectomy (VH) either because of lack of prolapse or multiple abdominal surgeries. All the surgeries were done by the same gynecologist. A total of 209 cases were performed, but 8 cases (3.8%) have been converted to TAH becaus...