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Chapter 43 - Basic Hysteroscopy

from Section 10 - Operative Gynaecology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2021

By
Attilio Di Spiezio Sardo ,
Fabrizia Santangelo ,
Maria Chiara De Angelis ,
Stephan Gordts ,
Helena Van Kerrebroeck  and
Rudi Campo
Edited by
Tahir Mahmood ,
Charles Savona-Ventura ,
Ioannis Messinis  and
Sambit Mukhopadhyay
Tahir Mahmood
Affiliation:
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy
Charles Savona-Ventura
Affiliation:
University of Malta, Malta
Ioannis Messinis
Affiliation:
University of Thessaly, Greece
Sambit Mukhopadhyay
Affiliation:
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, UK
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Summary

Modern gynaecology has witnessed a rapid evolution and a widespread application of endoscopic techniques over the past 20 years, particularly those seen in hysteroscopy. This has been made possible mainly due to technological developments relating to instrumentation and equipment, along with continuous improvements related to surgical techniques. The advances in technology and techniques, have made hysteroscopy less painful, less invasive and an outpatient procedure . Together with transvaginal ultrasound it provides the gold standard for diagnosis of uterine pathology.

Hysteroscopy enlarges the diagnostic capacity by minor surgical operative procedures like removal of IUD, biopsy or removal of polyps and minor synechiolysis.

This chapter provides a description of basic hysteroscopic procedures including simple operative procedures like second- and third-generation endometrial ablation and grade 0 to grade 1 myomectomy for small myomas.

Keywords

uterushysteroscopyendometrial cavitysynechiaepolypsendometrial biopsyvaginoscopy
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The EBCOG Postgraduate Textbook of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Gynaecology
 , pp. 376 - 384
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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