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2. Morcellator - Wikipedia

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   [12] In the same statement the FDA discouraged the use of power morcellators in patients seeking hysterectomy (removal of uterus through lower abdomen) and myomectomy (surgery to remove uterine fibroids – also called leiomyomas) procedures, estimating that approximately 1 in 350 such patients is found to have an unsuspected uterine sarcoma, a ...

3. Hysterectomy - Wikipedia

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   The national rate for the same timeline was 338 per 100,000 population, down from 484 per 100,000 in 1997. The reasons for hysterectomies differed depending on whether the woman was living in an urban or rural location. Urban women opted for hysterectomies due to uterine fibroids and rural women had hysterectomies mostly for menstrual disorders ...

4. Uterine myomectomy - Wikipedia

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   As with hysteroscopic myomectomy, laparoscopic myomectomy is not generally used on very large fibroids. A study of laparoscopic myomectomies conducted between January 1990 and October 1998 examined 106 cases of laparoscopic myomectomy, in which the fibroids were intramural or subserous and ranged in size from 3 to 10 cm. [3]

5. Woman has uterine fibroids removed that equaled the size of a ...

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   Erica Chidi, co-founder and CEO of Loom, a women's health education platform, is making her private health journey -- a six-year battle with uterine fibroids -- public, she said, in hopes of ...

6. There is help for women with uterine fibroids - AOL

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   Treating uterine fibroids without hysterectomy

7. Dilation and curettage - Wikipedia

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   Hysteroscopy is a valid alternative or addition to D&C for many surgical indications, from diagnosis of uterine pathology to the removal of fibroids and even retained tissue of Pregnancy . It allows direct visualization of the inside of the uterus and may allow targeted sampling and removal of tissue inside the uterus. [13]

8. Viola Davis shares she had hysterectomy, reveals she ...

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   Black women are three times more likely than white women to get uterine fibroids. ... She next had to have a myomectomy — an operation to remove 33 additional fibroids while leaving the uterus ...

9. Hysteroscopy - Wikipedia

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   Duration of the hysteroscopy procedure. Women in fertile age are at increased risk of resultant hyponatremic encephalopathy, likely because of increased level of estrogens. [13] The overall complication rate for diagnostic and operative hysteroscopy was 2% with serious complications occurring in less than 1% of cases using older methods. [1]