[Day-surgery operative hysteroscopy with loco-regional anesthesia].

Background: Nowadays hysteroscopic surgery offers the opportunity of treating in Day Hospital even patients who cannot undergo a traditional surgery because of high anesthesiological risk. The aim of this study is to prove that minimal invasive hysteroscopic procedures in loco-regional anesthesia can replace laparotomic gynecological surgery in many intrauterine lesions with the same effectiveness on pain and outcome.

Methods: From September 1999 to December 2000 at the Obstetric and Gynecological Department in Asti 200 hysteroscopic procedures have been performed.

Effects of stripping and laser excision on vocal fold mucosa in cats.

We compared the effects of stripping and laser excision on vocal fold mucosa in cats. Of particular interest were the comparative effects of each procedure on the mucosa's sensory structures. Mucosa was stripped from one vocal fold in three cats, lased in three additional cats, and histologically examined at 1-, 2-, and 3-week intervals postoperatively.