Davydov procedure

English

Etymology

From the name of the 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, "New laparoscopic peritoneal pull-through vaginoplasty technique", Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences, Volume 7, Issue 3, July-September 2014
  2. Geoffrey Ward, Samindra Panda, & Katharina Anwar, "Davydov's colpopoeisis: vaginal construction using peritoneum", Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Volume 8, Issue 4, December 1998
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