Abstract

Objective: To compare between different uterine wall incision direction, vertical incision and transverse incision in abdominal myomectomy of intramural myoma regarding to complications.

Methods: The study were conducted on 60 patients attending the shatby University Maternity Hospital underwent abdominal myomectomy for a single site intramural myoma. They were randomly divided into vertical incision group (30 patient) and a transverse incision group (30 patient). The intra-operative blood loss, uterine wound size.

Results: We proved that there was no significant difference between both incision regarding intra-operative blood loss, uterine incision size.

Keywords: Intramural myoma; Abdominal myomectomy; Transverse incision; Longitudinal incision