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Preferred Name

Sterilization, Tubal

Definitions
Procedures that render the female sterile by interrupting the flow in the FALLOPIAN TUBE. These procedures generally are surgical, and may also use chemicals or physical means. A knuckle of FALLOPIAN TUBE is ligated with absorbable suture, then a small segment is excised. A fimbriectomy technique that consists of excising the distal tube and fimbriae, and ligating the cut ends of the tube with silk sutures.
Synonyms
Sterilization, Pomeroy
Ligations, Tubal
Fimbriectomy, Kroener
Tubal Ligations
Tubal Occlusions
Nonchemical Tubal Occlusions
Tubal Ligation
Tubal Ring
Pomeroy Sterilization
Tubal Rings
Tubal Occlusion
Chemical Tubal Occlusion
Occlusion, Nonchemical Tubal
Tubal Sterilization
Ligation, Tubal
Uchida Method
Sterilizations, Tubal
Cornual Coagulation
Chemical Tubal Occlusions
Tubal Occlusion, Nonchemical
Tubal Occlusions, Nonchemical
Kroener Fimbriectomy
Occlusion, Chemical Tubal
Kroener Method
Tubal Occlusions, Chemical
Aldridge Procedure
Madlener Method
Tubal Sterilizations
Pomeroy Method
Tubal Occlusion, Chemical
Coagulations, Cornual
Cornual Coagulations
Ring, Tubal
Rings, Tubal
Nonchemical Tubal Occlusion
Fimbriectomies
Fimbriectomy
Cooke Method
Irving Method
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