[The use of Fogarty's catheter for salpingoplasties in laparoscopic surgery]

Nowadays new techniques of laparoscopic surgery make it possible to carry out fimbrioplasties and salpingostomies with results as good as those obtained by microsurgery. We describe a new use for the Fogarty catheter as a means of traction and for demonstrating the ampulla and the fimbrial end of the tube. The pneumatic balloon of the end of the catheter is blown up in the tubal ampulla. This makes it possible to bring the tube close to the laparoscope which makes it possible to carry out precise precise maneuvers with such degrees of enlargement as make it like a form of microsurgery. This kind of procedure helps in these delicate and difficult operations.