Laparoscopic Tubal Ligation or Coagulation
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 1-2 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.
- Next, a hollow instrument, a trocar, is 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.
- Once your doctor can see your Fallopian tubes, each one will be ligated or coagulated, depending on what you have both decided.
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