Pelviscopic surgery has been reported to have minimal tissue damage and bleeding, and to reduce cost and recovery time for patients undergoing a variety of procedures. The field of gynecologic operations that can be performed by pelviscopic
procesdures
has expanded rapidly.
This report is a retrospective review of 146 cases of pelviscopic surgery from January, 1991 to February 1996 to evaluate the efficacy of pelviscopic surgery in gynecologic patients.
@ES The results of this review were summerized as follows;
@EN 1. The majority of patients was between 21 and 40 years of age(84.2%), mean age was 33.1 years.
2. Preoperative clinical indications were adnexa; mass 77 cases(52.7%), ectopic pregnancy 48 cases(33.9%), uterine myoma 9 cases(6.2%), and etc.
3. Types of surgery were salpingectomy 43 cases(29.5%), salpingoophorectomy 41cases(28.1%), LAVH 9 cases(6.2%) and etc.
4. The previous operation history was found in 34 cases(23.3%), and the type of previous operation were Cesarean section 11 cases(32.4%), appendectomy 10 cases(29.4%), and there were 5 cases of previous history of ectopic pregnancy.
5. The mean duration of hospitalization was 5.8 days.
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