Laparoscopic Hysterectomy
What happens during the operation?
- While you are asleep under anaesthesia, your doctor will make a small cut (incision) under your belly button, as well as 2-3 other small cuts in your abdomen (please see diagram of possible sites).
- In order to expand your abdominal cavity to make it easier to see, carbon dioxide gas is inserted.
- A hollow instrument, a trocar, will be inserted and a laparoscope (a thin metal tube connected to a light source and camera) is placed inside of it.
- Your doctor will use the laparoscope to look at your internal organs and tissues.
- Next, your uterus will be freed from its support structures and, if your tubes and ovaries are to be removed, they will also be identified and detached.
- Once all the tissue is removed, the area is inspected and your incisions are closed. A urinary catheter will be inserted into your urethra.
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