Use of a Yankauer Suction Tip Combined with the Colpo-Pneumo Occluder Balloon to Suction the Surgical Field at the Vaginal Cuff During Robotic Hysterectomy

Abstract A 39-year-old patient with complex endometrial hyperplasia without atypia underwent robotic total laparoscopic hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. The procedure was technically challenging because of the patient’s obesity (body mass index 50 kg/m 2 ). Concomitant suction of pooled blood and retraction of bowel and omentum were necessary to close the vaginal cuff. An endoscopic retractor was used through the assistant’s port, and a Yankauer suction tip was placed through an inflated Colpo-Pneumo Occluder balloon in the vagina to provide directed suction to the vagina cuff. This technique enabled efficient closure of the vaginal cuff.