Successful pregnancy after myomectomy using preoperative adjuvant uterine artery embolization

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 145-149

  Nabeshima, Hiroshi ^a   Murakami, Takashi ^a   Sato, Yumi ^a   Terada, Yukihiro ^a   Yaegashi, Nobuo ^a   Okamura, Kunihiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leiomyoma; Myomectomy; Pregnancy; UAE

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DYSMENORRHEA; FEMALE; FEMALE STERILITY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MENORRHAGIA; MYOMECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURGICAL RISK; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; ARTERIES; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LAPAROSCOPY; LEIOMYOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENORRHAGIA; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS;

EID: 0141961557     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.200.145     Document Type: Article

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