by Michel Cosson
Vaginal Surgery provides numerous text boxes throughout the work that supply advice and tricks of the trade, as well as the common traps to avoid.
Features:
- Contains more than one-hundred full color illustrations and 230 color photographs
- Identifies and discusses each operational stage with perfect clarity
Contents
Surgical Environment
- Immediate pre- and postoperative care
- Positioning
- Instrumentation
- Specific anatomy and the creation of spaces
Simple Hysterectomy
- Vaginal hysterectomy
- Techniques for reducing uterine volume
- Simple trachelectomy
- Annexectomy
Laparoscopic Assistance
- Laparoscopic assistance for the vaginal approach
Oncological Surgery
- The Schanta operation with preparatory laparoscopy
- Radical trachelectomy
- Colpectomy
Prolapsus
- Techniques for curing genital prolapses
- Vaginal Colpohysterectomy
- Anterior operational stages - Campbell intervention
- Anterior operative stages - Paravaginal suspension to the tendinous
- Arches of the pelvic fascia
- Anterior operational stages - the "Plastron" technique
- Posterior operational stages - Suspension of the vaginal vault according to Richter
- Posterior operational stages - Myorrhaphy of the levator muscles
- Posterior operational stages - Douglassectomy
- Posterior operational stages - Perineal repair according to Musset
- Uterine preservation - Richardson operation
- Uterine preservation - Manchester operation and Shirodkar technique
- Recently developed techniques for the treatment of genital prolapse
Urinary Incontinence
- Urinary incontinence : generalities
- Suburethral slings
- Suburethral slings via a transobturator approach
- Vaginal sling
- Bologna operation
- "Classical" slings
Diagnosis and Treatment of Complications
- Visceral injury
- Intra- and postoperative haemorrhage
Perspectives
- History justifies the pre-eminence of vaginal surgery
- The role of vaginal surgery in today's gynaecological surgery
- Vaginal surgery, surgery of the future
Index
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