Total laparoscopic hysterectomy: technique and complications of 830 cases.

Objective: This study analyses the technique and complications from total laparoscopic hysterectomy.

Methods: Retrospective chart abstraction was performed on 830 consecutive patients operated on between 1996 and 2006. Demographic and surgical data were analyzed by ANOVA, chi-square, and Spearman and Pearson correlation techniques were used with significance set at P<0.

Total laparoscopic hysterectomy versus total abdominal hysterectomy: cohort review of patients with uterine neoplasia.

Objective: Retrospective analysis of surgico-pathologic data comparing total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) with total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH) patients with uterine neoplasia.

Methods: We conducted a chart abstraction of all patients undergoing hysterectomy for uterine neoplasia from September 1996 to November 2004. Patients were assigned to undergo the abdominal or laparoscopic approach based on established clinical safety criteria.