If a doctor thinks you might have fibroids, they’ll carry out a pelvic examination to look for any obvious signs and then might refer you to hospital for more tests, such as an ultrasound scan.

* Instructor, Department of Obstetrics, and teaching assistant, Department of Gynecology, Tufts College Medical School; senior visiting obstetrician, Evangeline Booth Maternity Hospital.

Given the morbidity associated with hysterectomy, less-invasive options for treating symptomatic uterine fibroids are appealing ... imaging (MRI)-guided focused ultrasound for the treatment ...

Further study is necessary to determine the safety of uterine artery embolization and magnetic resonance-focused ultrasound surgery in patients with fibroids desiring future fertility. The precise ...

Uterine fibroids, benign tumors that develop within the muscular walls of the uterus, affect millions of women worldwide, particularly during their reproductive years. While often asymptomatic ...

Medically reviewed by Renita White, MDFibroid degeneration occurs when a uterine fibroid outgrows its limited blood supply and begins to die. Fibroids are benign uterine growths made of smooth muscle ...

Background: No reports on Letrozole as a pretreatment before ablation of uterine fibroid with high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), so a retrospective observation study was performed to evaluate ...

such as pedunculated subserous or submucosal fibroids; (4) patients with scar tissue in the acoustic pathway, causing obvious attenuation of the B-mode ultrasound behind the detection of tissues ...