Laparoscopic blockage of uterine artery and myomectomy: A new method of treating symptomatic uterine leiomyomas

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 983-986

  Liang, Z ^a   Xu, H ^a   Chen, Y ^a   Li, Y ^a   Zhang, Q ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blockage uterine artery; Laparoscopy; Myomectomy; Symptomatic myoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY CLAMP; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOMECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAFETY; SYMPTOM; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; ARTERIES; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPY; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS;

EID: 33744745978     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0643-2     Document Type: Article

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