Placement of a Malecot catheter to enable embryo transfer after radical trachelectomy.
OBJECTIVE
To describe the use of a Malecot catheter as a stent after radical trachelectomy (RT).


METHODS
Case report.


METHODS
Assisted conception unit at a teaching hospital in the United Kingdom.


METHODS
A 36-year-old woman undergoing IVF after her cervix had been excised for cervical carcinoma. Previous attempts at embryo transfer (ET) had been very traumatic and required a transmyometrial transfer on one occasion.


METHODS
A Malecot catheter was inserted into the uterine cavity after a dilatation procedure had been performed and removed before ovarian stimulation.


METHODS
Ease of ET.


RESULTS
The subsequent ET was much more straightforward.


CONCLUSIONS
This technique can facilitate ET after RT if the passage is found to be stenosed.
Aust
Thomas R
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Hewitt Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Liverpool Women's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom. tomaust@doctors.org.uk
Herod
J Jonathan O
JJ
Gazvani
Rafet
R
D000328:Adult; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D004624:Embryo Transfer / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D013509:Gynecologic Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans