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  • noun Plural form of myomectomy.

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Examples

  • There are IUDs and hormone treatments that can help, as well as more limited surgical procedures (myomectomies and embolizations) that remove the fibroid tumors causing the bleeding but leave the uterus intact. 2.

    Female Trouble 2009

  • This has not been my experience with my patients who have had myomectomies, the favorite surgery of the HERs foundation.

    In Defense of the Hysterectomy aka TBTAM 2007

  • You can read more about myomectomies in Chapter 17.

    Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000

  • I have performed over a thousand myomectomies and on only one occasion did a patient require a blood transfusion.

    Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000

  • As beneficial as myomectomies can be, not all doctors are qualified to perform them.

    Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000

  • In other words, if the procedures are being performed, procedures like GYN, benign hysterectomy, myomectomies, if they're being performed in smaller hospitals, then it stands to reason that the physicians that are looking to participate in those procedures are going to look toward da Vinci.

    unknown title 2011

  • There also are minimally invasive surgeries such as laparoscopic myomectomies, which are done through multiple tiny incisions, and hysteroscopy, in which access to the fibroid is through the cervix.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • Across the U.S., approximately 300,000 hysterectomies and 70,000 myomectomies are performed annually to treat uterine fibroids.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • You can see that with the hysterectomy and myomectomy and this is all hysterectomies and myomectomies.

    unknown title 2008

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