Embolização dos miomas uterinos sintomáticos: indicação baseada em evidências científicas

Abstract

Interventional radiology has become increasingly prominent among the different medical specialties. Undoubtedly, one of the greatest developments in the field of gynecology is the technique of uterine fibroid embolization for treating uterine myomas that has benefited an increasing number of symptomatic patients. Annually in the United States, approximately 600 thousand women are submitted to hysterectomy. In Brazil, the accurate number of women submitted to hysterectomy is still to be known, and, consequently there is a lack of statistics on this procedure; however it is known that only a minority is aware of minimally invasive procedures as an alternative for preserving the uterus.