A prospective multicenter comparative study between myomectomy and uterine artery embolization with polyvinyl alcohol microspheres: Long-term clinical outcomes in patients with symptomatic uterine fibroids

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1287-1295

  Siskin, Gary P ^a   Shlansky Goldberg, Richard D ^b   Goodwin, Scott C ^d   Sterling, Keith ^e   Lipman, John C ^g   Nosher, John L ^h   Worthington Kirsch, Robert L ^c   Chambers, Theodore P ^f  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Roxborough Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e INOVA ALEXANDRIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f INOVA FAIRFAX HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g Atlanta Interventional Institute   (United States)

^h ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFARCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENORRHAGIA; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYOMECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; CLINICAL TRIALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSPHERES; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS;

EID: 33747476013     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.RVI.0000231953.91787.AF     Document Type: Article

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