Fibroids:  Uterine Artery Embolization (Uterine Fibroid Embolization),
       Myomectomy, and other Treatment Options

You may have heard of uterine artery embolization for the treatment of fibroids.  Is uterine fibroid embolization right for you, or should you have a myomectomy or hysterectomy

Fibroids, or uterine myomas (short for leiomyoma), affect 30% of women.  While many fibroids do not need treatment, they can cause abnormal uterine bleeding, pressure, pain, and other symptoms.

The Fibroid Medical Center of Northern California, Inc. combines the expertise of a world-renowned gynecologist cooperation with interventional radiologists who have extensive experience in uterine artery embolization.  As experts in both gynecology and interventional radiology, we will attempt to provide objective information to help you decide on the best approach to fibroids.

Uterine Artery Embolization:  A new treatment for fibroids.

All about fibroids.    Do all fibroids need treatment?

The diagnosis of fibroids.  What is often confused with fibroids?

Can my fibroids be removed?   Myomectomy:  what you need to know.  Check out Dr. Indman's new web site:  All About Myomectomy for Removal of Uterine Fibroids (will open in new window)

  Robotic Myomectomy with da Vinci Robot is minimally invasive procedure for removal of uterine fibroids that combines many of the advantages of Abdominal myomectomy with the rapid recovery of Laparoscopic myomectomy!  More to come about this major advance.

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