Ablation, hysterectomy short-term results similar.(Women's Health)

From: Internal Medicine News | Date: November 15, 2007| Author: Bates, Betsy | Copyright information

SAN DIEGO -- Both hysterectomy and endometrial ablation were highly effective short-term treatments for dysfunctional uterine bleeding in a randomized, multi-center trial, but about one-third of women who underwent endometrial ablation eventually needed more surgery.

The Surgical Treatments Outcomes Project for Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding (STOP-DUB) research group enrolled 237 women with DUB at 25 study sites between January 1998 and June 2001 in a trial to compare th...

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