Women's Health Medicine
Volume 2, Issue 3 , Pages 21-22, May 2005

Managing menorrhagia: resection and ablation

  • David Parkin

      Affiliations

    • David Parkin is Consultant and Honorary Reader in Gynaecology at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. His research interests include randomized trials on surgical treatment of menorrhagia.
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  • Alison Sambrook

      Affiliations

    • Alison Sambrook is a Specialist Registrar and Clinical Research Fellow at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. She qualified from Manchester University. Her research interests are gynaecological surgical techniques.

Abstract 

Hysterectomy is the traditional treatment for menorrhagia. It removes the problem, but involves major surgery and has a relatively high incidence of short-term complications. Endometrial ablation techniques have been developed and evaluated over the last decade in the hope that some destructive techniques will prove an alternative to hysterectomy. They should be considered as a primary alternative to medical treatment, in order to improve the patient's quality of life.

Keywords:  menorrhagia and other menstrual problems , endometrial ablation

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PII: S1744-1870(06)00056-4

doi:10.1383/wohm.2.3.21.67164

Women's Health Medicine
Volume 2, Issue 3 , Pages 21-22, May 2005

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