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What is a colporrhaphy?

What is a colporrhaphy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (surgery) suturing of a defect in the wall of the vagina
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The edges of this latter denuded surface are united by sutures, as in the operation of colporrhaphy.
However, the combination of Burch colposusupension and posterior colporrhaphy was especially likely to result in dyspareunia.
Anterior colporrhaphy is associated with similar rates of urgency incontinence, detrusor instability, and length of hospital stay when compared to the Burch procedure.
One patient underwent a subsequent anterior colporrhaphy, and one patient has undergone a subsequent posterior colporrhaphy.
Their findings suggested that needle suspensions may be as effective as anterior colporrhaphy.
These procedures included anterior colporrhaphy, posterior colporrhaphy and laparoscopic paravaginal repair.

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