title: Expansive benign lesions: treatment by laser.
abstract: Submucous fibroids, polyps and dysfunctional bleeding are responsible for meno-metrorrhagia in women over 40 years of age. The authors describe the technique of hysteroscopic myomectomy and endometrial ablation using the Nd-YAG laser and the advantages of the preoperative use of GnRH agonist therapy. They report their results in a series of 746 patients treated for meno-metrorrhagia (366 cases of myomectomy and 380 cases of endometrial ablation).
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology, Catholic University of Louvain, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smets
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nisolle
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bassil
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Donnez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004717:Endometrium / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015907:Hysteroscopy; D053685:Laser Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000601:surgery; D008595:Menorrhagia / Q000601:surgery*; D009215:Myometrium / Q000601:surgery; D012008:Recurrence; D014591:Uterine Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery