The role of laparoscopic hysterectomy in the surgical treatment of premalignant and malignant diseases of the uterine cervix and uterus
Holub, Z.; Vorácek, J.; Chod, J.
Ceska Gynekologie 62(2): 59-64
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 1210-7832 PMID: 9296793 Document Number: 478411
Laparoscopic hysterectomy is a suitable surgical method in women with premalignant changes of the uterine cervix and in premalignant and malignant endometrial diseases in a selected group of women with low or medium risk. The authors consider laparoscopic lymph-adenectomy in patients with endometrial carcinoma as technically feasible, provided careful selection and indication are made. Careful preoperative examination by biopsy, hybridization probes, tumour markers, sonography, computed tomography or magnetic resonance are essential. A minimal invasive approach can be applied not only in benign diseases of organs of the lasser pelvis. Favourable convalescence parameters are the reason for integration of surgical laparoscopy with gynaecological oncology. Multicentric control studies are needed which will provide evidence that endoscopy can improve the results of hitherto used surgical treatment. Training of the modern surgeon in the sphere of gynaecological oncology involves mastering of surgical techniques of open radical operations as well as perfect endoscopic surgery and strategy.