title: Sterilization failures 10 to 23 years after operation.
abstract: A list of sterilization failures encountered on the Benign Gynecology Service, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, L.S.U. Medical Center, Shreveport during the last eight and one-half years of the decade of the 1990's is reported. A total of 127 failures were collected. Eighteen (14%) of these cases fulfilled the criteria of long-term sterilization failure, i.e., failure occurring 10 or more years after surgery. The range of the 18 surgical failures spanned 10 to 23 years. Thus, a significant number of sterilization failures occurred beyond the two and one-half to ten-year range which evidence-based medicine reports.
authors.affiliation: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, 71130-3932, USA.
authors.forename: Harvey Terrell
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Huddleston
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008145:Louisiana / Q000453:epidemiology; D013245:Sterilization, Reproductive / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013997:Time Factors; D017211:Treatment Failure