[Microsurgical treatment of tuboperitoneal lesions. I. Results of distal tuboplasties: apropos of 135 cases].

135 patients were operated on using a microsurgical technique for distal plastic repairs between April 1978 and April 1983. Recurrences and cases with two lesions were excluded. The patients were classified in the group which corresponded to the tube that was less affected when the lesions were not symmetrical according to the I.F.F.S. classification. Out of 59 operations for fimbrioplasty, 31 had an on-going pregnancy, which is 52.5%, and 8 had an extra-uterine pregnancy, which is 13.5%. Of 76 cases that had neosalpingostomies, 28 had an on-going pregnancy, which was 36.8%, and 17 an extra-uterine pregnancy, which was 22.3%. When we looked at the results as a function of the initial lesion (the 9 cases of mixed lesions being excluded), 39 out of 83 cases of phimosis had an on-going pregnancy (47%) and 15 an extra-uterine pregnancy (18%). Out of 43 cases of hydrosalpinx 17 had an on-going pregnancy (39.5%) and 5 an extra-uterine pregnancy (41.6%). The levels of success obtained after operation on distal tubal lesions according to the criteria of definite selection are relatively satisfactory if one compares the present results with those obtained for in vitro fertilisation. It is therefore still correct to operate on these lesions. All the same, distal reparative surgery does give rise to a high risk of extrauterine pregnancy, which is nearly 20%. In our series the basically more significant rate at p less than 0.05 was shown after making neosalpingostomy in cases of phimosis. The consequences of this complication can now be limited by the progress that has been made in laparoscopic surgery.