title: Removal of large symptomatic intrauterine growths by the hysteroscopic resectoscope.
abstract: Fifty-three patients underwent 55 procedures with a resectoscope for the removal of large symptomatic intrauterine growths. The presenting complaint was menorrhagia, menometrorrhagia, or heavy postmenopausal bleeding in 38 patients; excessive menses plus infertility in 13 patients; and infertility alone in two patients. Forty-three patients had pedunculated or sessile submucous myomas and ten patients had large endometrial polyps. The long-term results are based on 45 patients followed for longer than 1 year. Excessive bleeding was controlled in 40 of the 43 women (93%). Failure to control abnormal bleeding was apparent within the first year. Seven of the 12 infertility patients (58%) delivered live-born infants. Five patients have undergone subsequent hysterectomies (9%). Two patients had repeat resectoscopic removal of myomas and two had subsequent non-resectoscope myomectomies. No major complications were encountered.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gynecologic Endoscopy, Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ 85013.
authors.forename: F D
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: Loffer
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D004598:Electrosurgery / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D020702:Hysteroscopes; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000209:etiology; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D008595:Menorrhagia / Q000209:etiology; D008796:Metrorrhagia / Q000209:etiology; D013997:Time Factors; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*