myomectomy
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Hysterectomy — the only complete cure, which removes the uterus along with any fibroids — and myomectomy, or surgical removal of the fibroids.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2022
But the reproductive challenges kept coming: She had a myomectomy, this time to remove 33 fibroids.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
You could undergo a myomectomy to remove fibroids that were impairing your fertility, only to end up with a hysterectomy performed to staunch life-threatening bleeding.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2018
Another option, myomectomy, surgically removes only the fibroids and leaves the uterus in place, thus preserving a woman’s fertility.
From US News ● Feb. 26, 2015
Fibroids are the reason for 30% of the 600,000 hysterectomies performed each year in the U.S. and 30,000 myomectomies, surgeries that remove the tumors but leave the uterus intact.
From Time Magazine Archive
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