منابع مشابه
Menorrhagia: endometrial ablation or hysterectomy?
BACKGROUND For many woman who suffer from menorrhagia, treatment would previously have meant hysterectomy. Today there are a number of less invasive surgical options available, such as endometrial ablation, which involves removal of the endometrium and part of the myometrium. This article compares two endometrial ablative techniques--transcervical resection of the endometrium and thermal balloo...
متن کاملA randomised trial comparing endometrial resection and abdominal hysterectomy for the treatment of menorrhagia.
OBJECTIVE To determine the advantages and disadvantages of endometrial resection and abdominal hysterectomy for the surgical treatment of women with menorrhagia. DESIGN Randomised study of two treatment groups with a minimum follow up of nine months. SETTING Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. SUBJECTS 51 of 78 menorrhagic women without pelvic pathology who were on the waiting list for abd...
متن کاملEconomic evaluation of hysteroscopic endometrial ablation versus vaginal hysterectomy for menorrhagia.
OBJECTIVES To estimate society's expenses and benefits of hysteroscopic endometrial ablation and vaginal hysterectomy for the treatment of women with menorrhagia. METHODS Between June 1992 and July 1993, 40 women with menorrhagia underwent vaginal hysterectomy by five surgeons in one hospital. These patients were compared retrospectively with the first 40 patients having had endometrial ablat...
متن کاملLong-term economic evaluation of resectoscopic endometrial ablation versus hysterectomy for the treatment of menorrhagia.
STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess long-term costs of resectoscopic endometrial ablation versus hysterectomy in women with menorrhagia. DESIGN Controlled cohort study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2). SETTING Multispeciality group practice. PATIENTS Sixty-four women who underwent endometrial ablation during 1992-1994 and 46 women who underwent hysterectomy during 1990-1992. To attain comp...
متن کاملTherapeutic use of LNG intrauterine system (Mirena) for menorrhagia due to benign lesions – An alternative to hysterectomy ?
METHOD(S) : This was a prospective, non-comparative study. Twenty patients who had menorrhagia due to non-malignant causes were included in the study (age range 20-42 years). However patients of fibroid uterus with uterine size more than 12 weeks and those with submucous fibroid were excluded. A LNG-releasing-intrauterine system was inserted on any day during bleeding or within a week of cessat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1017/s0007125000112863