Laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy refers to the use of a laparoscope to allow the performance of hysterectomy through a vaginal means that would have otherwise required an abdominal approach. Laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy refers to removal of the uterus utilizing a laparoscope but leaving the cervix in place. Laparoscopic myomectomy refers to removal of fibroid tumors from th...

Endometrial Stromal Tumor is a rare malignant tumor seen in perimenopausal women. This case of stromal tumour young nulliparous woman around her early thirties mimicking Fibroid uterus. She presented with 34 weeks size mass abdomen six months duration without any menstrual irregularities. The was diagnosed to be huge sub serous fibroid by both clinical and ultrasonographic examination. MRI reve...

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...

Uterine fibroids are the most common uterine neoplasm of uterus and the female pelvis and the most common indication for hysterectomy worldwide. When the fibroid is large and fills the whole pelvis or is pedunculated, it becomes difficult to differentiate from ovarian mass clinically. Cervical fibroids pose enormous surgical difficulty by virtue of their relative inaccessibility and proximity t...

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 ...

Gentlemen,?Fellows of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society,?We constitute to-night the first meeting of the thirty-seventh session of our Society. The special department of medicine which we cultivate must have some peculiar power to interest its followers and inspire them with enthusiasm, when it can call together fortnight by fortnight, year after year, such a goodly gathering of the busiest pra...

Women with symptomatic uterine fibroids have an increasing number of treatment options available, from medical management through minimally invasive procedures to major surgery. Over the past two decades, laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery, endometrial ablation, uterine artery embolisation, magnetic resonance guided focussed ultrasound, radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation and cryoab...

We report a case of a 45-year-old woman who presented with vomiting & severe fatigue. On routine examination show iron deficiency anemia Gastroscopy revealed a large polyp in the antral region causing intermittent gastric outlet obstruction. Histopathologic examination revealed an inflammatory fibroid polyp (known also as Vanek’s tumour). 1 Background: Gastric polyps are usually found incidenta...

Effect of garlic extracts on MSG induced fibroid in wistar rats was studied. Fifteen rats were randomly assigned into three study groups. The animals in Group 1(the control) received a placebo of 5.0ml distilled water via gastric intubation. The animals in the Groups 2 and 3 were treated with 100mg MSG/kg, or a combination of 100mg MSG/kg + 100mg garlic/kg respectively, in a total volume of 5.0...