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Thermal Ablation for the Treatment of Abdominal Tumors
Published on: March 7, 2011
Two cases of leiomyoma necrosis after thermal balloon endometrial ablation
Stephen Robson1, Bronwyn Devine
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Australian National University Medical School, Canberra, Australia. steve.robson@act.gov.au
Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
|March 21, 2007
Abstract:
The presence of intramural leiomyomas is not necessarily a contraindication to thermal balloon endometrial ablation, provided there is minimal distortion of the endometrial cavity. We report 2 cases of necrosis of intramural leiomyomas after the procedure. These cases illustrate a potential complication of thermal balloon endometrial ablation that has been reported only once previously in the medical literature.