Laparoscopic pomeroy tubal ligation: a comparison with tubal cauterization in a teaching hospital.

Dale C. Robinson, Staci K. Stewart, Rachel E. Reitan, Richard Gist, Glenn N. Jones

PubMed · 2004 · 10 citations · 0 references

Abstract

Laparoscopic Pomeroy did not differ from bipolar cautery for the outcome measures studied. Both time in residency and procedure-specific experience affect the duration of laparoscopic Pomeroy. A tubal segment length of 1 cm should be removed to limit sterilization failures.