[Surgical treatment of prolapse of vaginal stump (author's transl)]

Prolapse of the vaginal stump, following hysterectomy, is relatively rare. Its treatment is not always gratifying for its high rate of recurrence. -- While there is a great number of proposed surgical approaches to prolapse, the author actually resorted to one vaginal and one abdominal method for his own surgical treatment of 24 patients with prolapse of the vaginal stump. The vaginal method was the one proposed by Symmonds and Pratt and the abdominal was promontory fixation. The latter method appeared to be the safest with regard to recurrence.