DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

OPERATIVE TECHNIQUE

NAME: AGE: DATE:

PRE-OPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS:

PROCEDURE: DILATATION AND CURETTAGE

OPERATIVE FINDINGS:

POST-OPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS:

OPERATIVE TECHNIQUE:
AFTER INDUCTION OF SPINAL ANESTHESIA, THE PATIENT WAS PLACED IN DORSAL
LITHOTOMY POSITION. SEPSIS AND ANTISEPSIS DONE AND STERILE DRAPES WERE PLACED
ACCORDINGLY. THE VAGINA WAS SURGICALLY PREPARED. STRAIGHT CATHETERIZATION WAS
DONE TO EMPTY THE BLADDER. THE POSTERIOR AND ANTERIOR VAGINAL RETRACTORS WERE
PLACED EXPOSING THE CERVIX. THE ANTERIOR CERVICAL LIP WAS GRASPED WITH ALLIS
FORCEPS. HYSTEROMETER WAS USED TO MEASURE INTRAUTERINE DEPTH AT 10 CM. BLUNT
CURETTE WAS INSERTED AND ADVANCED UP TO THE UTERINE FUNDUS AND WITH A LIGHT
PRESSURE THE ENDOMETRIAL CAVITY WAS CURETTED IN A SYSTEMATIC BACK AND FORTH
MOVEMENT UNTIL ALL POSSIBLE ENDOMETRIAL SPECIMEN WAS OBTAINED. THE OPERATION
WAS THEN TERMINATED. SPECIMEN SENT FOR BIOPSY. PATIENT TOLERATED THE PROCEDURE
WELL.

SURGEON:

1ST ASSIST: