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Medscape Newsletter devoted to Morcellation controversy

The latest Medscape newsletter is devoted to the controversy. Here are the items listed:

FDA Advisory Panel Supports Morcellation Restrictions

From Medscape Ob/Gyn & Women's Health

News

FDA Advisory Panel Voices Concern About Morcellation Risk

FDA Panel Grapples With 'Weak' Data on Morcellation Risk

Uterine Cancer Rare in Hysterectomy With Morcellation, Study Shows Risk

The Morcellation Controversy: A Timeline

Perspectives

Morcellation Controversy Could Have Been Avoided With Surveillance, Former IOM Chair Says

Harvard Surgeon Aims to Ban Morcellation

AAGL Board Member Defends Morcellation

Morcellation Has Role in Patient Care, Societies Say

There should be lots of MEDRS for use in these articles. This controversy needs to be documented. -- Brangifer (talk) 18:27, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Morcellation vs. Morcellator controversy

Morcellation is not a new procedure in medicine. In 1893 there was a report in BMJ about myomectomy by morcellement (transvaginally), in 1899 John Lentaigne reported about a large cartilaginous tumour of thigh removed by morcellement. New is the use of electromechanical or bipolar (Olympus) morcellators. But not the instruments are the problem but the cutting into a tumour that can be done in every way.
One of the most recent studies compared laparoscopic hysterectomy with morcellation and abdominal hysterectomy. Their conclusion: "The risk of leiomyosarcoma morcellation is balanced by procedure-related complications that are associated with laparotomy, including death." (Matthew T. Siedhoff, Stephanie B. Wheeler, Sarah E. Rutstein, Elizabeth J. Geller, Kemi M. Doll, Jennifer M. Wu, Daniel L. Clarke-Pearson: Laparoscopic hysterectomy with morcellation vs abdominal hysterectomy for presumed fibroid tumors in premenopausal women: a decision analysis. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology , Volume 212 , Issue 5 , 591.e1 - 591.e8, doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2015.03.006)--Hic et nunc (talk) 10:21, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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This has some good info:

http://maisonneuve.org/article/2015/11/10/worth-risk/

173.228.123.250 (talk) 21:36, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]