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NEW YORK – Power morcellation has been highly controversial since the Food and Drug Administration warned against its use in the majority of women undergoing myomectomy or hysterectomy for fibroid treatment last year. So where [...]

Ceana Nezhat, MD, an expert in reproductive surgery and complex pelvic pathology from Atlanta, gives an update on a multidisciplinary fellowship for advanced abdominal and pelvic surgery.

CASE: Patient opts for myomectomy A 41-year-old woman, G0, with symptomatic myomas wishes to preserve her reproductive organs rather than undergo hysterectomy. She chooses laparoscopic myomectomy. Preoperative imaging with transvaginal ultrasound reveals a 4-cm posterior [...]

In late 2013,a public awareness campaign was initiated after electromechanical morcellation (EMM) of a uterus with presumed benign leiomyoma, which in fact was leiomyosarcoma (LMS). Over the past year, the focus of the medical community [...]