With careful use of a suggested technique for total hysterectomy which has been developed and used over a period of 20 years, the mortality rate associated with the operation need be no greater than that for subtotal hysterectomy. Moreover, the results obtained with it overcome many of the objections which advocates of subtotal hysterectomy raise against the routine use of the more extensive operation. At the same time none of the advantages of total hysterectomy are surrendered.

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True sacculation of the pregnant uterus.

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