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Hysterectomy, subtotal if possible, should be decided according to the clinical needs first (big uterus, cervical, endo or myometrial lesion) and according to the patient’s wishes. There is no systematic attitude and every individual case has to be discussed.
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von Theobald, P. (2017). Hysterectomy or Not Hysterectomy That Is the Question!. In: Laparoscopic Sacrocolpopexy for Beginners. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57636-7_5
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