RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Mosley, Mary
T1 Facilitating Vaginal Hysterectomy with Innovative Surgical Techniques
JF MD Conference Express
YR 2014
FD SAGE Publications
VO 14
IS 7
SP 4
OP 5
DO 10.1177/155989771407001
UL http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/14/7/4.abstract
AB Vaginal hysterectomy (VH) is the most minimally invasive approach for hysterectomy in women with benign gynecologic disease. During the Donald F. Richardson Memorial Lecture, Rosann M. Kho, MD, formerly of the Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, stated that it is time to transform the view of VH to increase its use and provide benefit to more women, most of whom would qualify for this approach. This requires defining new patient selection criteria while incorporating new surgical technologies, devices, and techniques to overcome the traditional challenges that have limited the use of VH.