[Overview of the development of laparoscopic surgery at the gynecologic clinic of the Leipzig University 1989-1993].

This paper reports on the trend in pelviscopy at the women's Hospital of the University of Leipzig during the period from 1989 to 1993. There were 1989 operations performed. Most of them (50.2%) were of diagnostic nature, followed by tubal sterilization (39.8%). Endoscopic surgery was represented with 9.9% of pelviscopy. Complication rate was at 0.6%. Mortality rate was at 0.05%. Since tubal sterilization has been introduced in 1990, a number of 792 patients have been sterilized by endocoagulation according to the method of Semm. Sterilization failure was at 0.38%.