METHOD FOR LIGATING UTERINE ARTERY AT UTERINE EXTIRPATION Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medicine, operative gynecology.

SUBSTANCE: one should apply a clamp onto uterine edge at the level of internal mouth being perpendicular to the edge, gash tissues above the clamp before the moment of parametral fiber mobilization. Then one should apply the second clamp being parallel to uterine cervix at the level of anterior-lateral arch and separate acutely the tissues against uterine cervix till complete mobilization at both clamps. Then one should suture underlying tissues being below the clamp's end under clamp's tip to apply ligature and the knot both in front and behind the clamps.

EFFECT: decreased traumaticity of the method.

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