Evaluation of total laparoscopic hysterectomy for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia

Abstract

Objective: In postmenopausal women, the cervix atrophies and retracts, thus making conization increasingly difficult, and results in a tissue specimen that is frequently inadequate. Total hysterectomy is recommended in patients with positive conization margins or cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) who do not desire children. In such patients, we performed total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH). The aim of this analysis was to confirm the efficacy of TLH for the