Participants
prolapse, malignancy, anterior wall prolapse
PROLAPSE
Women who underwent a vaginal or laparoscopic hysterectomy between 1996 and 2004 in a single teaching hospital were identified from the surgical registry. Women were excluded if they were over eighty years old, if they had a supracervical hysterectomy, if the indication for hysterectomy was malignancy or if they were deceased in the follow-up period.Eligible women were invited to complete a single survey and a gynaecologic POP-Q examination. Only women who completed both the survey and the POP-Q examination were included. They were divided into five groups according to the anatomy of their pelvic floor: no prolapse, isolated anterior wall prolapse, isolated posterior wall prolapse, combined anterior and posterior wall prolapse and prolapse involving the vaginal vault.