Uterine fibroids the complete guide /

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Main Author: Stewart, Elizabeth A., M.D
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
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?