Hysterectomy

Indications of abdominal hysterectomy:

Remember TOMB

Trauma: Uterine perforation, cervical tear

Obstructive: Remember HARM

• Hydatidiform mole
• Atonic PPH
• Rupture uterus
• Morbid adherent placenta
  

Malignancy: Carcinoma of ovary / cervix / endometrium, Chorio carcinoma, uterine sarcoma.

Benign: Remember ABCDEF 

• Adenomyosis
• Benign ovarian tumors
• CIN
• DUB
• Endometriosis
• Fibroids, tubo ovarian mass.

Now below is a 3D medical animation shows, in a very general manner, how three different types of hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus) surgeries are performed. Find more at http://www.nucleusinc.com