Treatment Procedures

Question 1

Cauterization

Answer 1

Heat is used to destroy abnormal tissue.

For example, in the lining of the cervix (lower neck like region of the uterus).

Medical practice or technique of burning a part of a body to remove or close off a part of it.

Question 2

Cyrosurgery

Answer 2

Use of cold temperature to freeze and destroy tissue.

For example liquid nitrogen to remove lining of the cervix.

Question 3

Dilation and Curettage (D&C)

Answer 3

Widening of the opening of the cervix and scraping of the lining of the uterus to remove tissue and stop prolonged or heavy uterine bleeding.

Question 4

Hysterectomy

Answer 4

Excision of the uterus either through the abdominal wall (abdominal hysterectomy) or through the vagina (vaginal hysterectomy).

Question 5

Myomectomy

Answer 5

The surgical removal of fibroid (myoma) tissue from the uterus.

Uterine artery embolization may be used instead to shrink the fibroids. Tiny pellets are injected into the uterine artery. The pellets act as emboli to block blood flow to fibrous.

Fibroids are muscular tumors that grow in the wall of the uterus.

Question 6

Tubal Ligation

Answer 6

Fallopian tubes are tied off (litigated) and cut to prevent pregnancy.