Uterine Fibroids Health Center

Citations

1. Practice Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Society of Reproductive Surgeons (2008). Myomas and reproductive function. Fertility and Sterility, 90(3): S125-S130.

2. Parker WH (2007). Etiology, symptomatology, and diagnosis of uterine myomas. Fertility and Sterility, 87(4): 725-736.

3. Lethaby A, Vollenhoven B (2011). Fibroids (uterine myomatosis, leiomyomas), search date June 2009. Online version of BMJ Clinical Evidence: http://www.clinicalevidence.com.

4. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2008 reaffirmed 2010). Alternatives to hysterectomy in the management of leiomyomas. ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 96. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 112(2, Part 1): 387-399.

5. Baird DD, et al. (2007) Association of physical activity with development of uterine leiomyoma. American Journal of Epidemiology, 165(2): 157-163.

6. Fritz MA, Speroff L (2011). The uterus. In Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility, 8th ed., pp. 121-155. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

7. Edwards RD, et al. (2007). Uterine-artery embolization versus surgery for symptomatic uterine fibroids. New England Journal of Medicine, 356(4): 360-370.

Other Works Consulted

• Haney AF (2008). Leiomyomata. In RS Gibbs et al., eds., Danforth's Obstetrics and Gynecology, 10th ed., pp. 916-931. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

• Lethaby A, Vollenhoven B (2011). Fibroids (uterine myomatosis, leiomyomas), search date June 2009. Online version of BMJ Clinical Evidence: http://www.clinicalevidence.com.