1. Patient preparation / Ronald L. Levine -- 2. Pelvic anatomy seen through the laparoscope / Robert M. Rogers, Jr. -- 3. Instrumentation and equipment / Ronald L. Levine -- 4. Anesthesia in laparoscopy / Laura Clark -- 5. Creation of pneumoperitoneum and trocar insertion techniques / Resad Pasic -- 6. Energy systems in laparoscopy / Andrew Brill -- 7. All you need to know about laparoscopic suturing / Resad Pasic -- 8. Laparoscopic tubal sterilization / Ronald L. Levine -- 9. Endometriosis / Dan C. Martin -- 10. Laparoscopic surgery for adhesions / Harry Reich, Lisa M Roberts, and Enda McVeigh -- 11. Ectopic pregnancy / Danielle E. Luciano, Gerard Roy, and Anthony Luciano -- 12. Endoscopic surgery for chronic pelvic pain / David L. Olive -- 13. Laparoscopic management of the adnexal mass / C. William Helm and Resad Pasic -- 14. Laparoscopic presacral neurectomy / Ceana Nezhat and Deidre Fisher -- 15. Laparoscopic hysterectomy / Robert S. Furr and CY Liu -- 16. Laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy / Thomas L. Lyons, Assia Stepanian, and Wendy K. Winer -- 17. Laparoscopic myomectomy and laparoscopically assisted myomectomy / Ceana Nezhat and Deidre Fisher -- 18. Laparoscopic occlusion of uterine arteries / Kirsten Hafd and Olav Istre -- 19. Tissue retrieval in endoscopic surgery / Eric Heinberg and Resad P. Pasic -- 20. Retroperitoneal dissection of the pelvic sidewall for benign disease / Grace M. Janik -- 21. Lower urinary tract endoscopy / Sam H. Hessami and David Shin -- 22. Laparoscopic paravaginal repair and burch urethropexy / Robert D. Moore and John R. Miklos -- 23. Tension free vaginal tape and TOT sling for stress urinary incontinence / Robert D. Moore and John R. Mikos -- 24. Pelvic floor surgery / Timothy B. McKinney -- 25. Laparoscopic sacralcolpopexy and enterocele repair with mesh / Robert D. Moore and John R. Miklos -- 26. Use of mesh in vaginal pelvic reconstructive surgery / Sam H. Hessami -- 27. Pediatric laparoscopy / Claire Templeman and S. Paige Hertweck -- 28. Endoscopic diagnosis and correction of malformations of female genitalia / Leila V. Adamyan and Katerina L. Yarotskaya -- 29. Laparoscopic bowel surgery / Jeff W. Allen and Benjamin D. Tanner -- 30. Gasless laparoscopy / Daniel Kruschinski, Bernd Bojahr, and Miroslav Kopjar -- 31. Laparoscopic radical hysterectomy : traditional and nerve-sparing technique / Javier F. Magrina, Rosanne Kho, and Wojciech Pawlina -- 32. Laparoscopic lymphadenectomy in gynecologic oncology / Farr Nezhart and Tanja Pejovic -- 33. Robotics : the clinical nuts and bolts to applications in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery / Arnold P. Advincula -- 34. Complications of laparoscopy / Barbara Levy and Michael Traynor.