A study has compared the relative risks of laparoscopic hysterectomy (with morcellation) with abdominal surgery for hysterectomy in premenopausal women undergoing surgery for presumed uterine ...

Using a hypothetical cohort of 100,000 women over a five-year time horizon, the investigators found that, while there would be more deaths from malignant leiomyosarcoma with laparoscopic surgery ...

New Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Offers Quicker Recovery Time, Fewer Side Effects Than Traditional Surgery Date: March 24, 2005 Source: University Of Texas Southwestern Medical Center At Dallas ...

The model evaluates outcomes according to the probability of complications specific to laparoscopic and abdominal surgery.

• During a laparoscopic hysterectomy, surgery is performed through dime-sized incisions in the navel or abdomen. This type of surgery leaves tiny abdominal scars that are about one-half inch ...

McFadden said a supracervical hysterectomy is very similar to the laparoscopic surgery, with the exception that surgeons remove the cervix with laparoscopic surgery.

Dr Peter Kovacs reviews results of a paper that used a decision-analysis model to study all-cause morbidity and mortality with laparoscopic and abdominal hysterectomy for presumed benign fibroids.

The Israeli subsidiary of Simbionix USA and a Florida medical school have received a grant of an unspecified amount to develop a laparoscopic hysterectomy surgery simulator. The grant comes from ...

Sensitivities and specificities were calculated for each of the variables examined in relationship to total laparoscopic hysterectomy and also to the presence of vascular space involvement within ...