Davydov procedure

English

Etymology

Named after Russian gynecologist S. N. Davydov, who popularized the procedure in the 1960s.[1][2]

Noun

Davydov procedure (plural Davydov procedures)

  1. (surgery) A form of vaginoplasty in which the patient's peritoneum is used to construct a neovagina or to lengthen an abnormally short vagina.

References
  1. Pravin Mhatre, Jyoti Mhatre, Rakhi Sahu (July-September 2014) “New laparoscopic peritoneal pull-through vaginoplasty technique”, in Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences‎, volume 7, number 3
  2. Geoffrey Ward, Samindra Panda, Katharina Anwar (1998 December) “Davydov's colpopoeisis: vaginal construction using peritoneum”, in Obstetrics & Gynaecology‎, volume 8, number 4
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