Clinical, physiological and radiologiocal assessment of rectovaginal septum reinforcement with mesh for complex rectocele (Br J Surg 2008; 95: 1264-72) (letter) | NOVA. The University of Newcastle's Digital Repository

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Title: Clinical, physiological and radiologiocal assessment of rectovaginal septum reinforcement with mesh for complex rectocele (Br J Surg 2008; 95: 1264-72) (letter)
Author/Creator: Zbar, A. P.; Ansari, A.
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Health, School of Medicine and Public Health
Description: We congratulate D’Hoore and colleagues on excellent results combining laparoscopic ventral rectopexy, perineal mesh, rectal/levator fixation, levatorplasty and mesh sacropexy. This ‘belt-and-braces’ approach, recently reported by others, confuses the range of conditions to which the authors refer. Separation of this eclectic group of patients needs to be made between those with obstructed defaecation who have a correctable rectocele with a coincident enterocele, vaginal vault prolapse or a perineocele. In this study it is unclear how many patients were posthysterectomy, where enteroceles with or without vault prolapse are more common when hysterectomy was not combined with a sacrocolpopexy or culdeplasty.
Relation: British Journal of Surgery Vol. 96, Issue 3
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bjs.6582
Date: 2009
Publisher: Wiley
Keyword(s): rectoceles; prolapse; enteroceles; hysterectomy
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/805214
Identifier: ISSN:0007-1323

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