Patient's question:
Today, it was diagnosed that there is a uterine fibroid. Is the uterine fibroid serious? Is surgery absolutely necessary? How is uterine fibroid treated surgically?Doctor's answer:
Uterine fibroids are the most common benign tumors in gynecology. The common symptoms of uterine fibroids are affecting menstruation, causing menstrual bleeding to increase continuously, menstrual periods to shorten. If you only discover the fibroids through a careful examination, and the fibroids are not large, less than 5 centimeters, with no symptoms, then treatment is not necessary. Have a magnetic resonance imaging examination once a year to understand the changes in the size of the fibroids. If the fibroids are large or menstrual bleeding continues to increase and menstrual periods shorten, leading to anemia, surgery should be considered. If the fibroids are prone to recurrence, consider a total hysterectomy, which can be performed laparoscopically.