title: Laparoscopic sterilization with therapeutic abortion versus sterilization or abortion alone.
abstract: Records of 606 therapeutic abortions performed by suction curettage, 693 interval laparoscopic sterilizations, and 442 combined procedures were analyzed and compared. The following conclusions were obtained: 1) Abortion alone and abortion with laparoscopic sterilization are similar in rates of postoperative morbidity (4.3 and 7%, respectively) and early complications (3.3 and 2.9%, respectively). 2) The risks in laparoscopic sterilization alone are significantly lower for postoperative morbidity (2.2%) and early complications (0.9%) than for abortion alone or for the combined procedure.
mesh_terms: D000032:Abortion, Therapeutic; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D012306:Risk; D013246:Sterilization, Tubal / Q000379:methods*; D014619:Vacuum Curettage