With the use of intraoperative ultrasound guidance, targeted radiofrequency energy ablates the fibroid with coagulative necrosis to shrink the fibroid. Uterine-artery embolization is performed ...
Kullervo Hynynen and colleagues have refined an image-guided technique known as MRI-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS), which is presently used to thermally ablate uterine fibroids by means of ...
Uterine fibroids are a common condition that affects up to 80% of women in their lifetime. Nearly half of those women will experience symptoms that affect their quality of life and fertility, ...
Given the morbidity associated with hysterectomy, less-invasive options for treating symptomatic uterine fibroids are ... imaging (MRI)-guided focused ultrasound for the treatment of leiomyomas ...
Medication abortions can be safely performed as early as the fourth week of pregnancy, researchers reported on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.