WEBVTT 00:00:04.054 --> 00:00:08.882 Once surgical treatment is indicated for a woman 00:00:08.882 --> 00:00:12.562 with myoma,, there are different options of surgical management 00:00:12.562 --> 00:00:20.728 depending on the size, fertility status of the woman, the age and the X of the woman 00:00:20.728 --> 00:00:27.161 the common surgical procedures are myomectomy 00:00:27.161 --> 00:00:30.039 in which myoma is going to be removed, 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:35.502 and hysterectomy, which the uterus totally with the myoma is going to be removed 00:00:35.502 --> 00:00:45.104 currently, there are recent or new techniques of treatment of the myoma 00:00:45.104 --> 00:00:47.514 which are more conservative in treating the myoma 00:00:47.514 --> 00:00:50.601 like X of the myoma 00:00:50.601 --> 00:00:53.272 intrtaarterial embolization 00:00:53.272 --> 00:00:59.276 MRI guided thermal ablation 00:00:59.276 --> 00:01:02.529 x ablation 00:01:02.529 --> 00:01:05.031 and the resection of the myoma 00:01:05.031 --> 00:01:08.536 and x scopic of the myoma are x techniques 00:01:08.536 --> 00:01:15.292 In this video, we are going to explain the most common type of procedure here in Africa which is myomectomy