Surgery
Expert Commentary
Does trocar-guided vaginal mesh improve the durability of repair of recurrent pelvic organ prolapse?
NOT WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT RISK.
News for Your Practice
Correcting pelvic organ prolapse with robotic sacrocolpopexy
An experienced surgeon describes key steps in performing sacrocolpopexy with assistance from the robot, modeled after the open procedure, using a...
News for Your Practice
Take this simplified approach to correcting exposure of vaginal mesh
By proceeding stepwise, uncomplicated exposures lend themselves to the generalist’s care. Here are management pearls, cautions, and gauges of...
Surgical Techniques
High uterosacral vaginal vault suspension to repair enterocele and apical prolapse
You can provide good apical support without significantly distorting the vaginal axis, and passing sutures intraperitoneally can be cleaner, and...
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Preoperative assessment of submucosal myomas
The uterine leiomyoma is the most common tumor of the female genital tract. Seventy percent of white women and 80% of black women develop one or...
Surgical Techniques
Applying single-incision laparoscopic surgery to gyn practice: What’s involved
New instrumentation and strategies have alleviated some of the challenges of performing laparoscopy through a single abdominal incision for a...
Medical Education Library
10 practical, evidence-based suggestions to improve your minimally invasive surgical skills now
Whether you’re a laparoscopic or robotic novice or veteran, implementing any of these pearls will elevate your prowess and success in the...
Clinical Review
UPDATE ON MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY
Careful preoperative assessment and innovative tools facilitate hysteroscopic myomectomy. Can office myomectomy be far off?
Clinical Review
The difficult vaginal hysterectomy: 5 keys to success
Challenges can be overcome by ensuring overall surgical expertise, adequate exposure, proper entry into the anterior cul-de-sac, good mobility,...
Expert Commentary
“You say you want a revolution. Well….”
Gynecology lags in the use of minimally invasive surgical approaches. That’s bad—for patients, payers, and physicians.
Clinical Review
UPDATE: MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY
All about endometrial polyps: how to assess them, what they signify, their malignant potential, and what to do about them