Publisher Description

This well-illustrated manual provides a step-by-step guide to most of the common gynaecological surgical procedures, and will be extremely useful to medical students, newly qualified doctors and registrars, and invaluable for GPs working in rural hospitals and health care centres. Topics covered include suture materials, wound healing and small procedures to vaginal, abdominal, stress incontinence and laparoscopic procedures. It also deals with obstetrical procedures such as Caesarean section, episiotomy and cervical cerclage.

Table of Contents

Preface; Wounds; Wound healing; Wound sepsis; Suture materials; Classification; Properties; Small procedures; Dilation and curettage; Suction curettage; Diagnostic hysteroscopy; Marsupialisation of Bartholin's cyst; Cold knife cone biopsy; Vaginal procedures; Vaginal hysterectomy; Vaginal hysterectomy with anterior repair; Post-operative complications after vaginal hysterectomy; Anterior colporrhaphy; Posterior colpo-perineorrha; Vaginal repair enterocoele; Preparation for abdominal procedures; Procedures on admission; Procedures on the day of operation; Procedures in theatre before the operation; Opening and closing the abdomen; General background; Pfannenstiel subumbilical incision; Maylard transverse muscle cutting incision; Abdominal procedures; Abdominal hysterectomy; Adnexectomy; Salpingectomy for extra-uterine pregnancy; Myomectomy; Stress incontinence procedures; Definition: pre-operative and post-operative care; Needles suspension procedure; Laparoscopic procedures; Laparoscopic sterilisation methods; Laparoscopic management of ectopic pregnancy; Laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy; Obstetrical procedures; Caesarean section; Episiotomy; Third degree tear; Cervical cerclage: MacDonald technique.

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