[Experiences with 3120 outpatients sterilized by laparoscopic tubal bipolar coagulation (author's transl)]

3120 patients have been sterilized by laparoscopic tubal bipolar coagulation. The operations were performed in an outpatient procedure. 0.096% severe complications during surgery were caused. The pregnancy rate was 0.06%. Our experiences and results confirm the low risk outpatient way of laparoscopic sterilization as reported in Anglo-American literature.