[Methods of sterilization of the female. Possibilities of hysteroscopic sterilization]

Present-day procedures for the sterilization of women are discussed. In particular, the possibilities of inpatient and ambulant treatments and their efficacy and risks are gone into. The hypsteroscopic transuterine tubal sterilization is reported as a new method which is still in the experimental stage. If the same sucessful results are achieved as with the sterilization methods already known, its advantages would be: a short ambulant procedure; local anesthesia, therefore no risk from the anesthetic point of view; avoiding the abdominal cavity, consequently no complications involving the peritoneal space such as are usually encountered with all other sterilization procedures; low risk of morbidity; the patients are not disabled; very low cost factor.