Hysteroscopic findings after laparoscopic and open myomectomy with or without uterine cavity breach: historical cohort study.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate hysteroscopic findings after laparoscopic and laparotomic myomectomy with a focus on the presence of postoperative intrauterine adhesions in groups of patients with and without perioperative uterine cavity breach (UCB).

Material And Methods: This is a historical cohort study. Our database was searched to identify patients with UCB during myomectomy and matched the same number of patients after myomectomy without UCB to create a control group.

Uterine artery embolization versus surgical treatment in patients with symptomatic uterine fibroids: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data.

Objective: Uterine fibroids are the most common benign tumours in women of the reproductive age. Symptoms of heavy menstrual bleeding, abdominal discomfort and infertility may seriously affect a woman's quality of life. Uterine artery embolization is a safe and effective alternative treatment to hysterectomy or myomectomy for symptomatic uterine fibroids.

Uterine fibroid embolization versus myomectomy in women wishing to preserve fertility: preliminary results of a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To compare the clinical results of surgical and endovascular treatment of uterine myomas in young women.

Study Design: In a university-affiliated, tertiary care center a prospective trial was conducted. Sixty-three women, wishing to retain fertility, with intramural fibroid(s) larger than 4 cm, were randomly selected either for uterine artery embolization or myomectomy.

Laparoscopic abdominal radical trachelectomy.

Background: Radical trachelectomy is a fertility preserving alternative for young women with early stages of cervical cancer. Currently, a technique of abdominal radical approach is used in a few centres. With growing availability of laparoscopy, a novel technique of laparoscopic radical trachelectomy might be an alternative.