PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED CONPARISON OF ELECTRONIC DIATHERMY VERSUS FLOSEAL IN HEMOSTASIS AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC OVARIAN CYSTECTOMY
Inclusion Criteria:
- Premenopausal women
- Patients who is planned to undergo laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy
- American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status classification (ASA PS) 1-2
- Patients with adequate bone marrow, renal and hepatic function:
WBC > 3,000 cells/mcl Platelets >100,000/mcl Creatinine <2.0 mg/dL Bilirubin <1.5 x normal
and SGOT or SGPT <3 x normal
- Patient must be suitable candidates for surgery
- Patients who have signed an approved Informed Consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with a history of pelvic or abdominal radiotherapy;
- Patients who are pregnant or nursing
- Patients who is receiving or requires hormone replacement therapy after surgery
- Patients who is undergoing hysterectomy at this time
- Patients who is undergoing unilateral or bilateral oophorectomy
- Previous history of ovarian cystectomy or oophorectomy
- Patients with contraindications to surgery
- Unfit for Surgery: serious concomitant systemic disorders incompatible with the study
(at the discretion of the investigator)
- Patient compliance and geographic proximity that do not allow adequate follow-up.
- Hormone therapy within 3 months before surgery