Dissecting a fibroid pseudocapsule

Surgical Management of Neurovascular Bundle in Uterine Fibroid Pseudocapsule

The uterine fibroid pseudocapsule is a fibro-neurovascular structure surrounding a leiomyoma, separating it from normal peripheral myometrium. The fibroid pseudocapsule is composed of a neurovascular network rich in neurofibers similar to the neurovascular bundle surrounding a prostate. The nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy has several intriguing parallels to myomectomy. It may serve either ...

A Large Uterine Fibroid

difficulties except those occasioned by the size of the tumour. The incision to deliver the tumour extended, from the pubes to the umbilicus and the weight and size of the tumour hindered considerably the subsequent steps of the operation. The broad ligaments which were greatly hypertrophied contained a large number of immense thin walled veins, some the size of the little finger, the ligation ...

Gastric Inflammatory Fibroid Polyp: Report of a Case

  The gastric inflammatory fibroid polyp (IFP) is a rare benign tumor of unknown etiology that is localized mainly in the antrum and presents endoscopically as submucosal mass. The lesion manifests as abdominal pain, weight loss, bleeding, dyspeptic symptoms, and iron deficiency anemia. We report a case of gastric IFP presented with microcytic anaemia, dyspepsia, malena and weight loss. Endosc...

Fibroid Polypus

Fibroid Uterus

It is not possible in surgery to point with greater triumph to any operation than intra-peritoneal hysterectomy, when one thinks that only so lately as 1896 the operation was performed by very few surgeons on account of its very high mortality, but from 1896 to 1906 it came down to 2 per cent.