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Vaginal Myomectomy

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Uterine Myoma, Myomectomy and Minimally Invasive Treatments

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Pedunculated aborting myomatas are often removed vaginally by gynecologists as an office or ambulatory procedure since the peduncle in some cases is long enough to allow the fibroids to be expelled into the vagina out of the cervix making this removal easier to perform.

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  1. Department of Gynecology, Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens, Long Island City, NY, USA

    Daniel A. Tsin MD, FACOG

  2. University Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal Free Hospital, London, NW3 2QG, UK

    Adam Magos BSc, MB BS, MD, FRCOG

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    Andrea Tinelli

  2. Obstetric and Gynecology, Santa Maria Hospital, Bari, Italy

    Antonio Malvasi

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Tsin, D.A., Magos, A. (2015). Vaginal Myomectomy. In: Tinelli, A., Malvasi, A. (eds) Uterine Myoma, Myomectomy and Minimally Invasive Treatments. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10305-1_14

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