title: Advances in laparoscopic sterilisation techniques.
abstract: Sterilisation by laparoscopic surgical interruption or occlusion of the Fallopian tubes is briefly reviewed. Fourteen cases of an experimental technique for reversible sterilisation by the insertion, either laparoscopically, at laparotomy, or by the vaginal approach, of a Silastic rod into each oviduct, are described.
mesh_terms: D004564:Electrocoagulation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008026:Ligation; D011028:Pneumoperitoneum, Artificial / Q000379:methods; D012826:Silicone Elastomers; D013243:Sterilization Reversal; D013246:Sterilization, Tubal / Q000379:methods*; D013525:Surgical Instruments; D014599:Uterus / Q000601:surgery; D014621:Vagina / Q000601:surgery
chemical_list: D012826:Silicone Elastomers