Laparoscopic Approaches to Female Incontinence, Voiding Dysfunction, and Prolapse

I. INTRODUCTION No longer can the surgeon consider only the management or elimination of disease. The surgeon of today has available the tools to manage disease with great efficacy, while inflicting minimal pain and allowing an expeditious convalescence. Advances in both minimally invasive surgical technology and surgical skills have made many traditional management strategies obsolete. Specifically, advances in reconstructive laparoscopic surgery have dramatically altered the standard of care in almost every surgical subspecialty.