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C Rivoire

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[Fertiloscopy: Clermont-Ferrand's experiment].

OBJECTIVE: Evaluation of fertiloscopy's place in the management of female infertility. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Retrospective study including 229 women presenting primary or secondary infertility without pathology raising of an evident surgical sanction and benefitting from a fertiloscopy. Perioperative data analysis (context of the infertility, operating technique, complications). RESULTS: Two hundred and three fertiloscopic procedures succeeded (88.6%), revealing lesions in 58 cases (28.6%) requiring a laparoscopy. These are represented by adherences (21 cases), endometriosis (17 cases), an abnormality of the tubal permeability (10 cases), complete or partial failure to visualize the adnexae (6 cases) and ovarian cysts visualization (4 cases). Five complications (2.5%) without major consequence will be deplored: two rectal injuries, two hemorrhagic complications and a postoperative salpingitis. Most of procedures (97.5%) have been performed in an ambulatory setting except when a geographic remoteness did not allow it (5 patients). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Fertiloscopy is a safe and reliable procedure. It can be substituted to laparoscopy in the routine assessment of infertile women management in case of not obvious surgical indication.

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[Laparoscopy and gynecologic cancer in 2005].

All the surgical procedures, which may be required to treat a gynecologic cancer, can be performed endoscopically. However prospective randomized studies required to confirm the oncologic efficacy of the technique are still lacking in gynecology, whereas such studies are available in digestive surgery. Animal studies suggested that the risk of tumor dissemination in non traumatized peritoneum is higher after a pneumoperitoneum than after a laparotomy. Experimental studies also emphasized two points: the surgeon and the surgical technique are essential, all the parameters of the pneumoperitoneum may influence the postoperative dissemination. Changing these parameters we may, in the future, be able to create a peritoneal environment adapted to oncologic patients in order to prevent or to decrease the risks of peritoneal dissemination and/or of postoperative tumor growth. Until the results of prospective randomized studies become available, the preoperative selection of the patients and the surgical technique should be very strict. In patients with endometrial cancer, the laparoscopic approach should be reserved to clinical stage I disease, if the vaginal extraction is anticipated to be easy accounting for the volume of the uterus and the local conditions. In cervical cancer, the laparoscopic approach should be reserved to patients with favorable prognostic factors: stage IB of less than 2 cm in diameter. Laparoscopy is the gold standard for the surgical diagnosis of adnexal masses. But the puncture should be avoided whenever possible. The surgical treatment of invasive ovarian cancer should be performed by laparotomy whatever the stage. In contrast restaging of an early ovarian cancer initially managed as a benign mass, is a good indication of the laparoscopic approach. The laparoscopic management of low malignant potential tumors should include a complete staging of the peritoneum. Knowledge of the principles of endoscopy and of oncologic surgery is required. Teaching and diffusion of endoscopic oncological techniques are among the major challenges of gynecologic surgery within the next few years.

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