Feasibility of myomectomy performed by minilaparotomy.

Background: To evaluate feasibility and clinical outcomes of myomectomy performed through minilaparotomic access in a large series of consecutive patients.

Methods: All patients submitted to laparotomic conservative surgery for uterine myomas through an initial minilaparotomic approach (4-8-cm transverse skin incision) were retrospectively evaluated. Preoperative findings, surgical technique, rate of laparotomic enlargement, operative time, surgical complications and length of recovery were the main analyzed outcomes.

Reproductive performance before and after abdominal myomectomy: a retrospective analysis.

Objective: To evaluate the results of abdominal myomectomy for intramural and subserosal fibroids and to identify factors that influence the reproductive outcome after surgery.

Design: Retrospective analysis of a case series.

Setting: An academic department specializing in gynecologic surgery.