Laparoscopic surgery is a current tide of widely accepted standard procedure for endometrial cancer

Abstract

Nowadays, a laparoscopic surgery (LS) has become the cornerstone of the minimally invasive surgery in gynecology not only for benign diseases but also for malignant diseases. It has such tempting merits that most surgeons are not able to resist its attractions. Comparing with open surgery (OS), the established benefits of LS include incomparably much less postoperative pain thanks to tiny wound, shorter hospital stays and subsequent medical cost decrease, less estimated blood loss (EBL) and reducing possibility of transfusion with less postoperative complications and comparable treatment outcomes including survivals in selected cases. It has been found that laparoscopic pelvic lymphadenectomy was facilitated by the positive intraperitoneal pressure secondary to pneumoperitoneum, which helps dissect the pelvic spaces.