| Summary: | An article published sixty years ago by the bulletin of scientific divulgation for students
and professors of the faculty of Medicine of the Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia,
concerning to the surgical techniques for the management of genital prolapse is
presented. The loss of the pelvic floor support has been tackled since various surgical
alternatives. There have been several proposals and the work of the professor Hernando
Taylor Henríquez demonstrated it. The majority of the suggested techniques has been
questioned quickly or considered ineffective. Currently there are diverse suggested
techniques, with different approaches and even with the resource of prosthesis or
meshwork, with controversies about which is the best of them. The text presents in
detail, the technique preferred by the author, who has been considered one of the
parents of the gynecological surgery in the Universidad de Cartagena. Rev.cienc.
biomed. 2013;4(2):387-391
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