[Distal tubal surgery].

The author summarizes his extensive experience of surgical treatment of tubal sterility. He shows by analysis of statistics of 1968 to 1980, that microsurgery does not significantly improve the total of intrauterine pregnancies, but seems to reduce the number of extrauterine gestations. He states that the results of tubal surgery seem to have attained a plateau, whilst one can anticipate a considerable development of in vitro fertilisation in the coming years.