On page 117, the“Abstract”should read: Hysterectomy is the most common major gynecological sur-gery performed in women. The aim of this study was to compare major morbidity and mortality between abdominal hysterectomy (AH) and laparoscopic hysterectomy (LH) for benign diseases. We performed a retrospective cohort study
using the data from Health Cost and Utilization Project Na-tionwide Inpatient Sample. Women were admitted for hyster-ectomy for benign diseases between the years 2002 and 2008. In-hospital morbidities and mortalities were identified using the diagnostic and procedural codes classified according to the International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision, and Clinical Modification. Logistic regression analysis was used to estimate the relationship between the type of hysterectomy and the development of major morbidity and mortality. Of a total 465,798 cases, 389,189 women (83.6 %) underwent AH
and the remainders underwent LH (76,609,16.4 %). The LH groupwas younger andmore likely to beCaucasian than those who underwent AH.Although major morbidities and mortalities were rare, women who underwent LH were less likely to develop thromboembolic events (0.69 % vs. 0.84 %, odds ratio (OR) 0.85 (0.77–0.93)),require blood transfusions
(2.4 % vs. 4.7 %, OR 0.58 (0.55–0.61)), and sustain bowel perforation (0.07 % vs. 0.13 %, OR 0.56 (0.42–0.74)). The mortality rate was also lower in the LH group (0.01 %)
compared with the AH group (0.03 %, OR 0.48 (0.24– 0.95)). Our conclusion was that for benign diseases, laparo-scopic hysterectomy is associated with a lower complication
rate than abdominal hysterectomy. When possible, hysterec-tomy performed for benign diseases should be performedwith
minimally invasive technique