Talk:Morcellator

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)

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, 10.1016/j.ajog.2015.03.006)--Hic et nunc (talk) 10:21, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

article
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)