Treatment of prolapsed submucous fibroids.
Prolapsed submucous fibroids are not uncommon, and patients present with a vaginal mass which is often necrotic and infected. This is a retrospective study of 41 such patients seen at the King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban, over a 3-year period. Twenty-eight were treated by vaginal myomectomy and 13 by abdominal hysterectomy. Postoperative morbidity was slightly higher with hysterectomy, but comparable to that for hysterectomy for unprolapsed fibroids.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006454:Hemoglobins / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011184:Postoperative Period; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D014621:Vagina / Q000601:surgery; D014625:Vaginal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*
D006454:Hemoglobins