Main description:

This textbook embraces most aspects of gynaecological laparoscopy and hysteroscopy and it aims to present a comprehensive coverage of gynaecological minimal access surgeries with excellent medical illustrations.

The reader is taken on a journey that includes the history of minimal access surgery, instrumentation and ergonomics required to progress in the field, capturing practical learning steps and navigating the reader through the diagnostic and therapeutic applications. In addition, it describes the latest technological advancement in the field, backed with high current best evidence.

The authors are practicing specialists drawn from five continents who brought their wealth of experience and expertise to bear in this book.

This textbook targets a global audience of practicing and trainee doctors in general gynaecology, subspecialists, and those with relevant special interests in gynaecological endoscopy surgery.

Contents:

Section 1: General Topics

1. History of minimal access surgery.

2. Laparoscopy and hysteroscopy Surgery instruments/equipment

3. Sterilization of Endoscopy Instruments.

4. The electrosurgical unit: Basic principles for practice.

5. Anatomy of the female pelvis.

6. Ergonomics and patient safety in gynaecological endoscopic surgery.

7. Gynaecological endoscopy in a low/middle income country: challenges and prospects.

Section 2: Laparoscopy

8. Anaesthesia for laparoscopic surgery

9. Laparoscopic port position, placement and closure

10. Laparoscopic entry/access techniques.

11. Techniques for laparoscopic tissue retrieval

12. Laparoscopy and dye test.

13. Laparoscopic suturing techniques.

14. Laparoscopic management of benign ovarian tumuors.

15. Laparoscopic ovarian drilling.

16. Laparoscopic tubal surgery and laparoscopic management of ectopic pregnancy.

17. Laparoscopy-guided hysteroscopic proximal tubal cannulation.

18. Laparoscopy in pregnancy.

19. Laparoscopic abdominal cerclage.

20. Minimal access urogynaecology.

21. Laparoscopic myomectomy.

22. Laparoscopic management of endometriosis.

23. Laparoscopic Hysterectomy.

24. Laparoscopic radical hysterectomy.

25. Complications of Laparoscopy.

Section 3: Hysteroscopy

26. Tips and Tricks to Facilitate the Art of Intra-Uterine Surgery.

27. Anaesthesia for hysteroscopy.

28. Distention media in Hysteroscopy.

29. Hysteroscopic management of uterine syechiae.

30. Hysteroscopic myomectomy.

31. Complications of hysteroscopy.