title: A Follow-up Critical Review of Laparoscopic Hysterectomy and Laparoscopic Assisted Vaginal Hysterectomy
abstract: A follow-up review to the original 1993 AAGL World Congress presentation on laparoscopic hysterectomy and laparoscopic-assisted hysterectomy is presented. When compared with the original hysterectomy group, the more recent hysterectomy operations show significant reduction in complications, operating time, laparotomy conversion, and procedure costs. Improvement in surgical outcome, with respect to complications, surgical time, conversion rate, and cost is believed to be secondary to the surgeon's experience and improvement in patient selection.
authors.affiliation: Center for Human Reproduction, 1900 East Golf Road, Suite 125, Schaumberg, IL 60173.
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Miller