The Women’s Surgery Center offers minimally invasive treatment options for nearly all gynecologic conditions. The best treatment option in every case is the one that offers a long-term solution or cure for your condition with the fewest complications, side effects, and the least interference with your life.
Minimally invasive surgery means using tiny incisions so you have less pain, less scarring, shorter hospital stays, and faster recovery. In fact, 90% of our surgical patients return home the same day. And most importantly, the outcomes are documented in medical studies to be better than standard laparoscopic surgery, robotic surgery, or open surgery. You get back to your life more quickly and with less pain.
Benefits of Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery
• Less pain: for only a brief time compared to longer times for standard laparscopic surgery, and even longer for robotic and open surgery.
• Tiny scars: two 5 mm incisions for two port procedures for a total of 10 mm (1/2 inch) of incisions versus a total of 30 mm (1.5 inch) of incisions for standard laparoscopy, 48 mm (2.5 inch) of incisions for robotic surgery, and up to 100 to 150 mm (6 – 7 inches) of incisions for open surgery.
• Reduced ‘down time”: Recuperation generally takes from two to ten days versus weeks to months with open procedures. Decreased blood loss with laparoscopy avoids the need for blood transfusions, and also prevents fatigue.
• High Risk Cases are Treatable: Patients with multiple prior surgeries or conditions thought to be only treatable with open procedures can be completed with advanced laparoscopic techniques.
• Malignant Cases are Treatable: Patients with cancer of the uterus, cervix, and ovary are often good candidates for laparoscopic procedures. These patients can avoid many of the major complications associated with radical open procedures, and if needed can begin chemotherapy or radiation therapy much faster, thereby increasing their chances for cure.
• Insurance Eligibility: Insurance companies and managed care reimburse minimally invasive surgery with no problem. These procedures have been shown to provide equal or better patient outcomes, reduces hospital stay, reduced infection and morbidity, and lower cost.
Throughout the Treatment Options portion of this site there is information about how the Women's Surgery Center treats a variety of gynecologic conditions. For more information about the benefits of Advanced Laparoscopic Hysterectomy and how it compares to standard laparoscopic surgery, robotic surgery, or open surgery, we encourage you to carefully review our data. All of the our data about Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery and our results, including surgical times, complication rates, recovery, and cost have been presented through various publications and presentations to the medical community through the peer-review process (including at medical conferences and through publications). We are happy to provide patients and referring physicians with copies of our data or any of our publications. We also invite patients and referring physicians to review our OR Live Webcast and video archives that demonstrate Adanced Laparoscopic Surgery.
We encourage you to review information related to your condition and invite you to make an appointment to discuss your condition with the Women’s Surgery Center’s talented physicians. We will review all possible treatment options with you and help you determine the best plan for your condition, lifestyle, and health.
An informed patient makes the best choices for their healthcare.
We invite you to become an informed patient and encourage you to thoroughly discuss your medical condition with your physician or one of the talented surgeons at the Women’s Surgery Center.