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Complication rates rise after decline in uterine fibroid morcellation

Publish date: April 12, 2018

 

FROM JAMA SURGERY


The study was supported by a grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, and one author was supported by the University of Insubria, and by Fondo Miglierina, Varese, Italy. No conflicts of interest were declared.

SOURCE: Multinu F et al. JAMA Surg. 2018 Apr 11. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2018.0141.

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