Abstract
Objective
To study clinical outcomes for different uterine wall incision directions, comparing vertical incision and transverse incision in laparoscopic myomectomy of the intramural myoma.
Methods
Laparoscopic myomectomies were performed on 50 women with intramural myomas. Using a table of random numbers, they were randomly divided into a vertical incision group (25 women) and a transverse incision group (25 women) according to the direction of incisions in the uterine wall. The numbers of enucleated myoma, operation duration, amount of bleeding, and numbers of sutures were compared. The Mann-WhitneyU-test was used for analysis.
Results
For the transverse incision group, the amount of bleeding (137.6 ± 88.1 mL) was a significantly lower value (P = 0.0426) than for the vertical incision group (235.8 ± 169.4 mL). In addition, in cases where the maximum myoma nucleus diameter was 7 cm or larger, operation duration (129.0 ± 32.5 min) and amount of bleeding (158.9 ± 87.1 mL) showed significantly lower values (P = 0.0067 andP = 0.0002, respectively) for the transverse incision group than did operation duration (362.3 ± 147.3 min) and amount of bleeding (362.3 ± 147.3 mL) for the vertical incision group.
Conclusion
Transverse incision of the uterine wall is useful to reduce the amount of bleeding in the laparoscopic myomectomy of the intramural myoma. Transverse incision also shortens operation duration in cases where the myoma nuclei are large.
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Morita, M., Asakawa, Y., Uchiide, I. et al. Surgery results using different uterine wall incision directions in laparoscopic myomectomy of the intramural myoma. Reprod Med Biol 3, 33–37 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1447-0578.2004.00049.x
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