Perineorrhaphy: commonly performed yet poorly understood. A survey of surgeons.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and hypothesis

Perineorrhaphy is performed for the prevention of recurrent prolapse, improved sexual function, treatment of pain, and cosmesis. Its use is based on expert opinion with few objective data. We aimed to describe factors that are important to surgeons when deciding to perform perineorrhaphy and variations in surgical technique.

Methods

We administered an anonymous survey to surgeon attendees at the 2014 SGS annual scientific meeting regarding which factors are important when deciding to perform a perineorrhaphy and details of their surgical technique. Surgeons rated the importance of factors; one-way ANOVA was used to rank the decision factors and post hoc pairwise comparisons with Fisher's least significant difference method were used to evaluate th

SUBMITTER: Kanter G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4670594 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature