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Laparoscopic myomectomy with enclosed transvaginal tissue extraction


 

Ceana Nezhat, MD, and Erica Dun, MD, of the Atlanta Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery and Reproductive Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, present this surgical case of a 41-year-old G0 with radiating lower abdominal pain and mennorhagia who desired removal of her symptomatic myomas. Preoperative transvaginal ultrasound revealed a 4-cm posterior pedunculated myoma and 5-cm fundal intramural myoma.

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