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Human Reproduction, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 193-196, 1988
© 1988 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology

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Cervical surgery in infertility

J. Salat-Baroux, J.M. Antoine, J. Hamou and J.L. Mergui

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hôpital Tenon 4 Rue de la Chine, 75020 Paris, University Paris VI, France

We wish to stress three original techniques among the numerous operations which can be performed on the uterine cervix for the treatment of infertility. The first treatment is for cervical dysplasia of the cervix, a conization performed by electrosurgery under local anaesthesia, using a metallic handle of 23 mm, associated with vaporization by a CO2 laser at the edges of the resection. This technique, used for 125 patients, has permitted adequate resection. The rate of incomplete resection is > 10%. This method has preserved the possibility of pregnancies without abortion. The second technique is the surgical repair of a large post obstetrical split of the cervix by an abdominal exposure. After dissection of the bladder, the vagina is opened longitudinally, the cervix exposed and repaired carefully. Four patients who had previously had four to six abortions between 4 and 6 months of gestation, succeeded in achieving a full term pregnancy by this technique. The third technique is the resection of the isthmic septum by microscissors or microelectrocautery under local or general anaesthesia by hysteroscopy. Twelve cases, five with primary infertility, seven with second infertility and habitual abortions, were operated on by this technique in 1986-87. Four pregnancies have resulted.

Key words: infertility/conization/septum of the uterus/cervical surgery


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