BACKGROUND Surgical site infections are potential complications following open myomectomy. These infections usually develop immediately after the surgery, and are most often located in the myometrium. Pyogenic cervical cysts are rare and have not been previously reported to occur at the site of myomectomy. CASE PRESENTATION A 41-year-old nulligravida Japanese woman was referred to our hospita...

Uterine fibroids are benign tumors of the myometrium with a diverse range of manifestations. Fibroids can dramatically increase in size during pregnancy due to the increase in estrogen levels. After delivery, the fibroids usually shrink back to their pre-pregnancy size. Uterine myomas may have many complications, including abnormal uterine bleeding, infertility, pressure on nearby organs, degen...

BACKGROUND Uterine fibroids are the most common tumour in women of reproductive age. By the time they are 50-years-old around 80% of women will have developed one. Of these, around half will experience symptoms which will impact negatively on their quality of life. Hysterectomy is the traditional treatment for women with symptomatic fibroids. For women who do not wish to undergo a hysterectomy,...

operation is not done as frequently as it should be. I admit, of course, that we are all agreed that myomectomy is a good operation, and that each one is doing it according to his lights. My aim to-night will be to define the very broad limits of the operation, to emphasise its safety, and to show its feasibility and success under conditions which, so far as I can judge, would, by many, be term...

A rare case of non-puerperal uterine inversion caused by a large fundal leiomyoma in a 36-year-virgo intacta resulting in intractable haemorrhage was reported. After a myomectomy, attempts to reduce the inversion vaginally by transecting the anterior and posterior cervix was unsuccessful and a laparotomy was performed. The inversion was successfully corrected with return of normal function of t...

A 37-year-old para 0 + 0 presented with abdominal pain and progressive abdominal swelling. She had no menstrual complains. Abdominal examination revealed a large 30 week non-tender, firm and mobile mass. A pelvic/abdominal ultrasound confirmed a 15.7 x 9.9 cm pedunculated fibroid arising from the uterine fundus. A laparoscopic myomectomy was successfully undertaken, and the morcellated fragment...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the results of hysteroscopic myomectomy in our center and to compare the results to those published in the literature. METHODS We performed a retrospective study of the clinical histories of patients who had undergone hysteroscopic myomectomy with a resectoscope between January 1992 and December 1999. Procedures were performed at a hysteroscopic clinic in the Department o...

We report on a healthy 34-year-old woman who received an elective myomectomy for uterine fibroid, and postoperatively developed fatal streptococcal toxic shock-like syndrome. We discuss the series of events that led to this life-threatening disease and its pathophysiology, and suggest areas in which management might have been improved.

Uterine leiomyomas remain the commonest cause of menorrhagia and frequently cause pressure symptoms. Management of leiomyomas depends on the presenting symptoms, size, location, number of myomas, and the patient's desire to retain her uterus, fertility, or both. We present the first case of laparoscopic myomectomy for a fibroid measuring 30cm in maximum diameter.