Uterine fibroids the complete guide /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Johns Hopkins Press health book.
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Table of Contents:
- About fibroids
- Who gets fibroids, and what are the symptoms?
- What are uterine fibroids?
- Why we are so far behind in understanding and treating fibroids
- Endocrinology of the uterus
- Why do fibroids form?
- Diagnosis: how do I know that I have fibroids?
- When fibroids come back
- Surgical treatment
- Surgery inside the uterus: hysteroscopic myomectomy, endometrial ablation, and vaginal myomectomy
- Laparoscopic myomectomy and myolysis
- Abdominal myomectomy
- Uterine artery embolization
- Focused ultrasound surgery and other thermoablative therapies
- Hysterectomy
- Medical treatment
- Traditional hormonal therapies: birth control pills and progestin
- GnRH agonists, add-back therapies, and GnRH antagonists
- Innovative medical strategies for treating uterine fibroids
- Other factors, other conditions
- Genetics of fibroids
- Pregnancy, infertility, and miscarriage
- Adenomyosis and endometrial polyps
- Uterine cancers
- Fibroid-like conditions
- Alternative and complementary therapies
- What can we do about fibroids?