Modified Sturmdorf amputation of the uterine cervix
Pennoyer, W.H.
Rocky Mountain Medical Journal 67(11): 44-45
1970
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-760X PMID: 5480536 Document Number: 5505
Various methods of treating the uterine cervix have been reviewed. With a positive or suspicious Pap's smear certainly a cold knife cone is indicated. Also, in many cases of erosion and endocervicitis a cold knife cone will give a more satisfactory result than cautery. There will be less morbidity, and the patient will avoid much of the troublesome discharge associated with cautery. The Modified Sturmdorf leaves a clean, quickly healing incision that closely simulates the original anatomy of the cervix. It also gives the pathologist an adequate. undamaged, specimen for study. Bielecki's modification of closing the coned out cervix is a better procedure than the original Sturmdorf in that the suture used to invert the cervical lips also provides hemostasis for the cervical vessels and so makes further hemostatic suturing of the cervix superfluous.
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