Endoscopic salpingectomy.
A new laparoscopic surgical procedure, endoscopic salpingectomy, is reported. The technique is based on laparoscopic surgical procedures by electrocoagulation, performed with a triple-puncture technique. It is indicated for patients complaining of chronic pelvic pain clinically treated without success and/or who wish to be sterilized and also have chronic pelvic pain, with positive tubal findings of enlargement and/or hyperemia at laparoscopy. Also presented are pre- and postoperative care, instruments, technique, complications, results and follow-up on the first 100 patients who underwent this procedure.
D000328:Adult; D004564:Electrocoagulation; D005187:Fallopian Tubes / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000601:surgery; D010388:Pelvis; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013246:Sterilization, Tubal / Q000379:methods*