The difficulty of producing sterility by operations on the fallopian tubes.
Published in The American journal of obstetrics and diseases of women and children
The ineffectiveness of tubal surgery in rendering a woman sterile is discussed in this review of surgical procedures used for tubal ligation and/or excision. The following methods have been used: tubal ligation, section and resection of tubes between 2 ligatures, resection of tubes between 2 ligatures with burial of the uterine end, cauterization o...