Fertility and Sterility
Volume 85, Issue 1 , Pages 14-21 , January 2006

Uterine artery embolization versus myomectomy: a multicenter comparative study

  • Scott C. Goodwin, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs and The University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Scott C. Goodwin, M.D., F.S.I.R., Imaging Services, Veterans Administration Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, 11301 Wilshire Boulevard, Mail Code 114, Los Angeles, California 90073 (FAX: 310-268-4973)
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  • Linda D. Bradley, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gynecology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • John C. Lipman, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Radiology Associates of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
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  • Elizabeth A. Stewart, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gynecology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • John L. Nosher, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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  • Keith M. Sterling, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Inova Alexandria Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia
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  • Merle H. Barth, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas
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  • Gary P. Siskin, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Albany Medical Center, Albany, New York
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  • Richard D. Shlansky-Goldberg, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Interventional Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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  • UAE versus Myomectomy Study Group

Received 13 January 2005 ,Revised 31 May 2005 ,Accepted 31 May 2005.

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 S.C.G. has received funding from and is a consultant for Boston Scientific Corporation. This study was funded by grants from Boston Scientific Corporation.The UAE vs. Myomectomy Study Group: Paul R. Dong, M.D., and Michael S. Broder, M.D., David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California-Los Angeles; Richard W. Tureck, M.D., Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; John C. Lipman, M.D., Radiology Associates of Atlanta; Gary P. Siskin, M.D., Albany Medical Center; John L. Nosher, M.D., and Gloria A. Bachmann, M.D., Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center; Merle H. Barth, M.D., and Amy E. Young, M.D., The Methodist Hospital; Mahmood K. Razavi, M.D., and Bertha H. Chen, M.D., Stanford University Medical Center; Theodore P. Chambers, M.D., and Glenna R. Anderson, M.D., Fairfax Hospital; Robert L. Worthington-Kirsch, M.D., Roxborough Memorial Hospital; Lynda T. Thomas, M.D., Chestnut Hill Hospital; Richard A. Reed, M.D., and Shafeeq S. Shamsid-Deen, M.D., Huntington Memorial Hospital; Keith M. Sterling, M.D., and Barry S. Rothman, M.D., INOVA Alexandria Hospital; Gerald A. Niedzwiecki, M.D., Mease Hospital; Elizabeth A. Stewart, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Linda D. Bradley, M.D., Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Timothy R. Yeko, M.D., The Reproductive Medicine Group.The UAE vs. Myomectomy Study Group Clinical Events Committee: James B. Spies, M.D., Georgetown University Medical Center; Douglas M. Coldwell, Ph.D., M.D., University of Mississippi; Keith B. Isaacson, M.D., MIGS Center at Newton Wellesley Hospital.The UAE vs. Myomectomy Study Group Core Laboratory: Reena C. Jha, M.D., Georgetown University Medical Center; Susan M. Ascher, M.D., Georgetown University Medical Center.

PII: S0015-0282(05)03656-3

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.05.074

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 85, Issue 1 , Pages 14-21 , January 2006

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