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COPYRIGHT 2004 International Medical News Group
PHILADELPHIA -- Uterine fibroid embolization had a failure rate of 10.7% in the largest patient series to examine long-term failure rates associated with the procedure.
"Based on our findings, gynecologists should offer uterine fibroid embolization [UFE] as a nonsurgical treatment option for symptomatic fibroids and should inform patients of these long-term failure rates," said Jack Huang, M.D., a resident at McGill University in Montreal. Dr. Huang and Togas Tulandi, M.D., a professor at the university, were lead investigators in the study.
The only other study...
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