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Chapter 19 - Research and New Developments in Hysteroscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 September 2020

By
Paul Smith  and
T. Justin Clark
Edited by
Mary E. Connor  and
T. Justin Clark
Mary E. Connor
Affiliation:
Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
T. Justin Clark
Affiliation:
Birmingham Women’s Hospital
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Summary

One of the fundamental maxims of surgery is to work with excellent visualisation of the operative field. The dark, inaccessible nature of the uterine cavity has led to procedures in this environment being conducted ‘blindly’, flying in the face of the surgical axiom of good visualisation. Dilatation and curettage, or ‘D&C’, was the defining procedure of gynaecology for the diagnosis and treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding and miscarriage.

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Diagnostic and Operative Hysteroscopy , pp. 235 - 248
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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