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The surgical procedure to remove all of or part of the uterus.
Examples of hysterectomy in a Sentence
Caesarean a planned cesarean instead, which ended in an emergency hysterectomy.
Ten patients underwent total hysterectomy and two had an endometrial curettage only.
The Basic plan covers the cost of hysterectomy or castration surgery, but the Primary plan does not.
Is there an alternative to a hysterectomy to treat fibroids?
Within 20 years of myomectomy, about 1 in 4 women will undergo hysterectomy most often for recurrent symptomatic fibroids.
Hysterectomy is the most common treatment used for uterine fibroid removal, and accounts for 30% of all fibroid treatments.
Hysterectomy was performed and the histopathology showed residual hyperplasia only the tissue that had become malignant had been removed by the curettage.
At the age of 32 I had to undergo a full hysterectomy.
There are two main ways to perform a hysterectomy.
The group who had had a hysterectomy received HRT by implant.
It is particularly helpful for women wanting to maintain fertility and who wish to avoid hysterectomy.
Hi All, I'm now 9 weeks post op from having a vaginal hysterectomy, i have had an uneventful recovery.
Women with a previous section are up to 27 times more likely to need obstetric hysterectomy than those who have had only vaginal deliveries.
See the section above on surgery for stage 2 to see what a radical hysterectomy involves.
She had a planned cesarean instead, which ended in an emergency hysterectomy.
These include, small bowel resection, stoma, excision of fistulas, right nephrectomy, oophorectomy and possible hysterectomy.
The patient had undergone hysterectomy (hysterectomy) some years before and the left ovary and tube had not been removed.
A hysterectomy is an operation to remove a woman's uterus (womb ).
Uterine malignancy that had not been diagnosed at transcervical resection of the endometrium was present at hysterectomy in two women.
A hysterectomy is an operation to remove a woman 's uterus (womb).
A " subtotal hysterectomy " removes the uterus leaving the cervix in place.
Drugs can be used to help shrink the fibroid, in severe cases the only option is to undergo a hysterectomy.