title: Spontaneous extrusion of Hulka-Clemens spring-loaded clips after vaginal hysterectomy: two case reports.
abstract: Two patients had previously been sterilized by the application of Hulka-Clemens spring-loaded clips to the Fallopian tubes, had a vaginal hysterectomy. In each patient a clip that was left attached to its tubal remnant was spontaneously extruded through the vaginal vault during the postoperative period.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D007045:Hysterectomy, Vaginal; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013246:Sterilization, Tubal / Q000295:instrumentation*