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Culdoscopy

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Culdoscopy is an endoscopic procedure in which a culdoscope is introduced through the posterior wall of the vagina to examine the rectouterine pouch and the pelvic organs. Its name comes from cul-de-sac, the French term for the rectouterine pouch that the procedure is designed to reach.

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Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culdoscopy, lead section
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Culdoscopy is an endoscopic procedure performed to examine the rectouterine pouch and pelvic viscera by the introduction of a culdoscope through the posterior vaginal wall.
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