[Results at the Rabta Tunis Maternity and Neonatology Center of the surgical treatment of genital prolapse. 193 cases in 7 years (1982-1988)].

The authors report their experience in the treatment of 193 cases of genital prolapse treated surgically in the Rabta Tunis Maternity and Neonatology Unit during a 7 year period between January 1st 1982 and December 31st 1988. The epidemiological characteristics of the study population were dominated by the following factors: advanced age (mean age 54); multiparity (80 per cent of cases); 65.8 per cent of women were post-menopausal. The commonest association of lesions was triple prolapse, present in 78 per cent of cases. Stress incontinence of urine (SIU) was a common feature (59 per cent of cases). Treatment preference was for vaginal hysterectomy combined with anterior colporrhaphy and posterior perineorrhaphy (73.5 per cent). The Kelly Marion operation was often used for SIU (89 per cent of cases) and gave satisfactory results in 73 per cent of cases.