Methodical intrauterine resection.

A technique using a fine intrauterine resectoscope with mobile electrical loop and continuous flow providing a thoroughly clear vision in all circumstances was used to resect 61 submucous leiomyomas. This technique allows complete resection of intrauterine benign tumours such as submucous leiomyoma sessile type partially embedded in the myometrium, old and wide marginal synechiae, or uterine septa. Under direct visual control it allows one to perform deep biopsies leading to precise histologic diagnoses with determination of possible myometrial penetration. The advantages of this technique, which may be performed eventually on outpatients with paracervical block, are: precise hemostasis; complete and controlled uterine evacuation, avoiding postoperative infections; precise histologic diagnosis; suppression of a good percentage of hysterectomies and open myomectomies; simplicity of follow-up; brevity of hospitalization and convalescence, which are sometimes nil; and conservation, or even restoration, of fertility.