PMID: 9428576Jan 1, 1997Paper

No-scalpel vasectomy: review of the first 1,000 cases in a family medicine unit

Archives of Medical Research
S Arellano LaraJ Espinosa Perez

Abstract

In Mexico, the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) had adopted the no-scalpel vasectomy technique by the end of 1989. The technique was described by Dr. Li Shunquiang in 1974, and more than 60 million no-scalpel vasectomies have been performed in 26 countries. Among the advantages with no-scalpel vasectomy is that it has fewer complications (0.4%) compared to the traditional technique (3.1%). We studied 1,000 clinical charts of the subjects operated on between January, 1990 and January, 1993, with the objective of reporting our experiences as well as analyzing whether there existed a correlation between the subject's social and demographic characteristics and the number of control spermatic counts he attended postoperatively. In 97.9% of the cases, subjects had no postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma. None of the subjects had a surgical wound infection. In addition, 54.4% of the subjects came to the first control spermatic count, 39.7% came to the second, and only 18.4% came to all three controls. In an attempt to find a characteristic which defined the subject who attends his postoperative control spermatic counts, we found an association using chi2 between the attendance at two controls with the subjects who had been ...Continue Reading

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