Advertisement
Research Article| Volume 22, ISSUE 4, P791-799, December 1995

MYOMATA UTERI AND INFERTILITY

      This paper is only available as a PDF. To read, Please Download here.
      To read this article in full you will need to make a payment

      Purchase one-time access:

      Academic & Personal: 24 hour online accessCorporate R&D Professionals: 24 hour online access
      One-time access price info
      • For academic or personal research use, select 'Academic and Personal'
      • For corporate R&D use, select 'Corporate R&D Professionals'

      Subscribers receive full online access to your subscription and archive of back issues up to and including 2002.

      Content published before 2002 is available via pay-per-view purchase only.

      Subscribe:

      Subscribe to Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics
      Already a print subscriber? Claim online access
      Already an online subscriber? Sign in
      Institutional Access: Sign in to ScienceDirect

      References

        • Babaknia A
        • Rock JA
        • Jones HA
        Pregnancy success following abdominal myomectomy for infertility.
        Fertil Steril. 1978; 30: 644
        • Berkeley AS
        • DeCherney AH
        • Polan ML
        Abdominal myomectomy and subsequent fertility.
        Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1983; 156: 319
        • Blum M
        Comparative study of serum CAP activity during pregnancy in malformed and normal uterus.
        J Perinat Med. 1978; 6: 165
        • Bonney V
        The techniques and results of myomectomy.
        Lancet. 1931; 220: 171
        • Buttram VC
        • Reiter RC
        Uterine leiomyomata: Etiology, symptomatology and management.
        Fertil Steril. 1981; 36: 433
        • Corson SL
        • Brooks PG
        Rectoscopic myomectomy.
        Fertil Steril. 1991; 55: 1041
        • Deligdish L
        • Lowenthal M
        Endometrial changes associated with myomata of the uterus.
        J Clin Pathol. 1970; 23: 676
        • Farrer-Brown G
        • Beilby JOW
        • Tarbit MH
        Venous changes in the endometrium of myomatous uteri.
        Obstet Gynecol. 1971; 38: 743
        • Faulkner RL
        The blood vessels of the myomatous uterus.
        Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1945; 47: 185
        • Fayad YM
        • Tsibris JCM
        • Langenberg PW
        • Robertson AL
        Human uterine leiomyoma cells, binding, and growth responses to epidermal growth factor, platelet-derived growth factor and insulin.
        Lab Invest. 1989; 60: 30
        • Gainey HL
        • Keela JF
        Submucous myoma in term pregnancy.
        Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1949; 58: 727
        • Garcia C-R
        • Tureck RW
        Submucosal leiomyomas and infertility.
        Fertil Steril. 1984; 42: 16
        • Goldzieher JW
        • Maqueo M
        • Ricaud L
        • et al.
        Induction of degenerative changes in uterine myomas by high-dose progestin therapy.
        Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1966; 96: 1078
        • Hunt SE
        • Wallach EE
        Uterine factors in infertility: An overview.
        Clin Obstet Gynecol. 1974; 17: 44
        • Ingersoll FM
        Fertility following myomectomy.
        Fertil Steril. 1963; 14: 596
        • Malone LJ
        Myomectomy: Recurrence after removal of solitary and multiple myomas.
        Obstet Gynecol. 1969; 34: 200
        • Merrill JA
        • Creasman WT
        Lesions of the corpus uteri.
        in: Danforth DA Scott JR Obstetrics and Gynecology. JB Lippincott, Philadelphia1980: 1068
        • Novak ER
        • Woodruff JC
        Myoma and other benign tumors of the uterus.
        in: Novak ER Woodruff JD Novak’s Gynecologic and Obstetric Pathology. ed 6. WB Saunders, Philadelphia1967: 211
        • Pollow K
        • Sinnecker G
        • Boquoi E
        • Pollow B
        In vitro conversion of estradiol-17 beta into estrone in normal human myometrium and leiomyomas.
        Journal of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry. 1978; 16: 493
        • Rein MS
        • Friedman AJ
        • Barbieri RL
        • et al.
        Cytogenic abnormalities in leiomyomata.
        Obstet Gynecol. 1991; 97: 1923
        • Rein MS
        • Friedman AJ
        • Pandian MR
        • Heffner LJ
        The secretion of insulin like growth factors I and II by explant cultures of fibroids and myometrium from women treated with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist.
        Obstet Gynecol. 1990; 76: 388
        • Rice JP
        • Kay HH
        • Mahony BS
        The clinical significance of uterine leiomyomas in pregnancy.
        Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1989; 160: 1212
        • Rosenfeld DL
        Abdominal myomectomy for otherwise unexplained infertility.
        Fertil Steril. 1986; 46: 328
        • Sadan O
        • Van Iddekinge B
        • Van Gelderen CJ
        • et al.
        Oestrogen and progesterone receptor concentration in leiomyoma and normal myometrium.
        Ann Clin Biochem. 1987; 24: 263
        • Smith DC
        • Uhlir JK
        Myomectomy as a reproductive procedure.
        Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1990; 162: 1476
        • Spellacy WN
        • Lemaire WJ
        • Buhi WC
        • et al.
        Plasma growth hormone and estradiol levels in women with uterine myoma.
        Obstet Gynecol. 1972; 40: 829
        • Stevenson CS
        Myomectomy for improvement of fertility.
        Fertil Steril. 1964; 15: 367
        • Tommola P
        • Pekonan F
        • Rutanen EM
        Binding of epidermal growth factor and insulinlike growth factor I in human myometrium and leiomyomata.
        Obstet Gynecol. 1989; 74: 658
        • Townsend DE
        • Sparkes RS
        • Baluda MEC
        • McClelland G
        Unicellular histogenesis of uterine leiomyomas as determined by electrophoresis of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase.
        Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1970; 107: 1168
        • Tulandi T
        • Murray C
        • Guralnick M
        Adhesion formation and reproductive outcome after myomectomy and second-look laparoscopy.
        Obstet Gynecol. 1993; 82: 213
        • Verkauf BS
        Myomectomy for fertility enhancement and preservation.
        Fertil Steril. 1992; 58: 1
        • Wallach EE
        Myomectomy.
        in: Thompson JD Rock JA Telinde’s Operative Gynecology. ed 7. JB Lippincott, Philadelphia1992: 647