Laparoscopic Surgery, and the Supracervical Hysterectomy (LSH)

Physicians worldwide watched Dr. David Chapman perform this groundbreaking procedure, live via the internet!

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Dr. Chapman performed a Laproscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy (LSH) at McLeod Hospital on a live patient before a live audience via TV and the internet. This amazing event was watched all over the world, demonstrating not only Dr. Chapman’s amazing surgical skills, but also McLeod's superior technology.

"For a busy professional, LSH is a modern miracle because she is spared the inconvenience of missing work."
-- David Chapman, MD

Hysterectomies often meant big incisions and often months of recovery for our mothers and grandmothers. But today’s woman has the wonderful alternative of this one hour procedure, requiring just three small 1- to 1.5 inch abdominal incisions. A tiny video camera is inserted and broadcasts an image of the inside of the woman’s body. The doctor operates viewing the enlarged image on a computer monitor.

Special instruments permit removal of a massive fibroid uterus, endometriosis, ovaries, and fallopian tubes through the tiny incisions. After the procedure, three Band Aides are applied to the tummy incisions. A little recovery time, and then it’s voila! The patient is home in just a few hours. A week later she has a follow-up visit with Dr. Chapman who gives her the OK to return to work.

Special training and delicate skills are required. “I had to become ambidextrous; it’s a blessing I work well with both hands,” says Dr Chapman. Anyone viewing the recording of the amazing surgery knows that Dr Chapmen is extremely skilled! And the patients who’ve had LSH are even surprised by their rapid recovery.

Many working women have scheduled their hysterectomies on Thursday or Friday and been back in their office in a week. There is no hospital stay involved with LSH.

LSH is safe and effective, according to Dr. Chapman, who has performed over 180 LSH procedures. “If there’s no risk of cervical cancer, we’re able to leave the cervix intact, to continue providing anatomic support,” he explains.

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