[Surgical treatment of congenital transverse septum below the cervix of the vagina]

J Gynecol Obstet Biol Reprod (Paris). 1984;13(2):189-95.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Transverse septa underneath the cervix are thick and have above them a funnel-shaped vault covered by pathological mucous membranes. The surgical procedures that are normally used to try to treat the condition and to avoid soft tissue dystocia by carrying out V-Y plasties using Garcia's technique or Z-plasties, or even radial incisions followed by the insertion of a pack, are all somewhat unsatisfactory. The authors, confronted with a similar case, decided to cut out the dome of the vagina and the diaphragm and followed that by a small amputation of the cervix, with anastomosis of the uterus and the remaining vagina.

MeSH terms

  • Cervix Uteri / surgery*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Methods
  • Radiography
  • Vagina / abnormalities*
  • Vagina / diagnostic imaging
  • Vagina / surgery