The surgical removal of a benign growth from a muscle, especially removal of a fibroid from the uterus.
A surgical procedure for removing uterine fibroids (also called myomas). In this procedure, only the fibroids are removed, leaving the remaining uterus intact. Women who have had myomectomies are more likely to require delivery by cesarean section if they become pregnant. Fibroids recur in about 20 percent of women who have undergone myomectomy.
An operation in which benign tumors (fibromyomas or fibroids) are removed from the muscular wall of the womb. It is performed instead of hysterectomy when the patient wishes to bear children.
The excision of a myoma through surgery is referred to as myomectomy. This term is also employed to depict the surgical elimination of fibroids from the uterus.
The surgical removal of a myoma. This term is often used to describe the extraction of a fibroid tumor from the uterus wall.