Colpocleisis is a procedure involving closure of the vagina, used to treat vaginal prolapse.
[1][2] In women who are no longer sexually active, a simple procedure for reducing prolapse is a partial colpocleisis.
The procedure was described by Le Fort[citation needed] and involves the removal of strip of anterior and posterior vaginal wall, with closure of the margins of the anterior and posterior wall to each other.
When it is completed, a small vaginal canal exists on either side of the septum, produced by the suturing of the lateral margins of the excision.
[citation needed] Dr. Nathan Bozeman and Prof. Gustave Simon had a controversial dispute in the 1870s, about the "wide and indiscriminate" use of the procedure that existed at that time.