AIM To compare minilaparotomic and vaginal surgery in selected obese patients with early-stage endometrial cancer at high surgical risk. PATIENTS AND METHODS Data of 37 consecutive class II-III obese patients submitted to minilaparotomic surgery were retrospectively reviewed. Thirty-seven women matched for demographic characteristics, BMI and stage of disease submitted to vaginal surgery in t...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of vaginal hysterectomy (combined with anterior and/or posterior colporraphy) and abdominal sacro-colpopexy (with preservation of the uterus) on urogenital function. DESIGN Randomised trial. SETTING Three teaching hospitals in The Netherlands. POPULATION Eighty-two patients undergoing surgical correction of uterine prolapse stages II-IV. METHODS Particip...

•Vaginal cancer is most common in elderly woman and very rare in young woman.•Stage I vaginal cancer is treated with surgery and radiotherapy.•Vaginal cancer in a young patient was treated by intra-arterial chemotherapy followed by abdominal radical trachelectomy.

The fascial pubovaginal sling for stress urinary incontinence is effective and durable. Various techniques and materials have been developed, including polypropylene tension-free vaginal tape. Contrary to other synthetic slings, tension-free vaginal tape reportedly has a low complication rate.1,2 We report on a case of long-term urinary retention after tension-free vaginal tape surgery, which r...

INTRODUCTION Owing to significantly improved outcomes, vaginal hysterectomy is the recommended standard approach when feasible in preference to abdominal hysterectomy. It is, however, not clear whether the use of vaginal hysterectomy varies with the women's socioeconomic background. MATERIAL AND METHODS All 22,150 women registered in the Danish Hysterectomy Database in the 2004-2008-period we...