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SPONTANEOUS EXTRUSION OF HULKA‐CLEMENS SPRING‐LOADED CLIPS AFTER VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY: TWO CASE REPORTS
Author(s) -
Barker G. H.,
Roberts D. W. T.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1977.tb12528.x
Subject(s) - clips , spring (device) , hysterectomy , extrusion , medicine , surgery , materials science , engineering , mechanical engineering , composite material
Summary Two patients who had previously been sterilized by the application of Hulka‐Clemens spring‐loaded clips to the Fallopian tubes, had a vaginal hysterectomy. In each patient a clip that was left attached to its tubal remnant was spontaneously extruded through the vaginal vault during the postoperative period.