Table 1.

Baseline patients’ characteristics and surgical parameters

	AH (n = 35)	LH (n = 37)	p
Age (years)	48.1 ± 9.5	50.0 ± 9.2	0.208
Parity	1.5 ± 1.3	1.9 ± 1.2	0.137
BMI (kg/m2)	26.4 ± 3.9	26.7 ± 5.8	0.774
Uterine size (weeks)	9.2 ± 4.2	9.7 ± 5.2	0.875
Estimated difficultya	3.0 ± 1.6	4.3 ± 2.4	0.023
Experienced difficultya	3.4 ± 2.2	4.8 ± 2.5	0.018
Surgery time (min)	82 ± 32	121 ± 31	<0.01
Blood loss (ml)	402 ± 299	204 ± 172	<0.01

Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation

AH abdominal hysterectomy, LH laparoscopic hysterectomy

^aEstimated and experienced difficulty rated on a 0–10 Visual Analogue Scale, where a higher score denotes a higher difficulty level