Laparoscopic myomectomy with simultaneous uterine artery ligation: A literature review of prospective studies

This review article has comprehensively covered the benefits of uterine ligation simultaneous laparoscopic myomectomy in the views of operative time, operative blood loss, hospital stay, recurrent rate and symptoms relief in recent articles. The information has been derived from medical database such as SprinkerLink, DOAJ, CINAHL, EBSCO delivery system, PubMed-NCBI, Sciencedirect, HighWire, Web of Science and ProQuest. There were only 3 articles which met my research criteria. The positive result of combined operation was reduction of operative blood loss for all studies. But 2 articles showed the operative time in combined operation more than single procedure. One study had a better percentage of symptom relief in a group of combined operation and tendency to decline in recurrent rate. However other articles revealed no difference in recurrent rate and pregnancy rate in both groups. Nowadays we still need more information from further randomized controlled trial studies to prove the hypothesis of benefits and risks of this add-on procedure.