Fertility and Sterility
Volume 85, Issue 1 , Pages 22-29 , January 2006

Clinical outcomes of focused ultrasound surgery for the treatment of uterine fibroids

An abstract of this work was presented at the Annual Clinical Meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in May 2004.

  • Elizabeth A. Stewart, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Elizabeth A. Stewart, M.D., Center for Uterine Fibroids, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 (FAX: 617-566-7752)
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  • Jaron Rabinovici, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
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  • Clare M.C. Tempany, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Yael Inbar, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Radiology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
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  • Leslie Regan, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Mary’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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  • Bobbie Gastout, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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  • Gina Hesley, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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  • Hyun S. Kim, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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  • Suzanne Hengst, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Charité Medical Center and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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  • Wladyslaw M. Gedroye, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, St. Mary’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Received 7 January 2005 ,Revised 15 April 2005 ,Accepted 15 April 2005.

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 Supported and funded by Insightec, Ltd., Haifa, Israel.The following individuals also contributed to this work: Michael A. Jacobs, Ph.D., Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Jonathan Hindley, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel; Simcha Yagel, M.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel; Tilman Ehrenstein, M.D., and Miri Sklair Levy, M.D., Department of Radiology, Charité Medical Center and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; and Ferenc A. Jolesz, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

PII: S0015-0282(05)03655-1

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.04.072

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 85, Issue 1 , Pages 22-29 , January 2006

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