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- Title
Laparoscopic O’Conor's repair for vesico-vaginal and vesico-uterine fistulae.
- Authors
Chibber, Percy Jal; Shah, Hemendra Navinchandra; Jain, Pritesh
- Abstract
This article cites a study investigating the effectiveness of laparoscopic O'Corner's repair for vesico-vaginal and vesico-uterine fistulae. Vesico-vaginal fistula (VVF) has been a social and surgical problem over the years. Researchers have analyzed retrospectively eight consecutive patients with VVF and vesico-uterine fistula who had a laparoscopic transabdominal transvesical repair between January 2000 and April 2004. Of these, six patients had VVF after abdominal hysterectomy and the other two a vesico-uterine fistula after Caesarean section. On cystoscopy all patients had a supratrigonal fistula, with a mean diameter of 12 mm, and had a laparoscopic repair 6-8 weeks after their initial surgery. The laparoscopic procedure was successfully completed in seven of the eight patients, with conversion to open surgery in the first, where after dissecting the vesico-uterine fistula from the uterus there was technical difficulty while suturing the cystostomy incision.
- Subjects
LAPAROSCOPIC surgery; UTERINE surgery; UTERINE diseases; UTERINE fistula; VESICOVAGINAL fistula; CESAREAN section; ENDOSCOPY
- Publication
BJU International, 2005, Vol 96, Issue 1, p183
- ISSN
1464-4096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05592.x