Which one is safer - performing a laparoscopic hysterectomy with a tissue fusion device involving diagnostic cystoscopy or traditional abdominal hysterectomy with ureteral dissection?

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Yavuzcan A., YILDIZ G., Caglar M., ALTINTAŞ R., Dilbaz S., YILDIZ P., ...More

VIDEOSURGERY AND OTHER MINIINVASIVE TECHNIQUES, vol.8, no.4, pp.280-288, 2013 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 8 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2013
  • Doi Number: 10.5114/wiitm.2013.39504
  • Journal Name: VIDEOSURGERY AND OTHER MINIINVASIVE TECHNIQUES
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.280-288
  • Keywords: abdominal hysterectomy, laparoscopic hysterectomy, diagnostic cystoscopy, ureter dissection, QUALITY-OF-LIFE, UNITED-STATES, INJURIES, RATES, PREVENTION, SURGERY, PATIENT, ROUTE
  • Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
  • Akdeniz University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Introduction: It still remains an unanswered question whether, in the absence of gynecological malignancy and under elective conditions, to perform abdominal hysterectomy (AH), offering a safer approach, or to perform a laparoscopic hysterectomy (LH) procedure.