July 12, 2007
Abdominal Myomectomy
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Myomectomy is surgical removal of uterine fibroids. The goal is to bring back the uterus to its usual level of functioning. It is the only surgical procedure for uterine fibroids that can preserve the possibility of getting pregnant. There are cases of women that got through pregnancy without any problems after having this kind of surgery.
Besides abdominal, there are also laparoscopic and hysteroscopic myomectomy. Abdominal myomectomy represents the most classical approach:
| • | the surgeon makes an incision on the skin over the uterus, |
| • | takes the uterus out, then |
| • | makes another incision on the uterus itself, |
| • | finds the fibroids and cuts them out, then |
| • | reconstructs the uterus by suturing the walls with a dissolving suture, |
| • | and then |
| • | the completely restored uterus is brought back into the body. |
A “true surgery” one might say, comparable to a large surgery of any other internal organ.
Please read the rest of the article on abdominal myomectomy.
Filed under Myomectomy, Uterus by Dusko Savic