Prevention and Management of Complications in Laparoscopic Myomectomy

Table 1

Comparison of hysterotomy scar hematoma after laparoscopic myomectomy.

Study	Patients	Myoma number	Myoma mean size cm	Operation average time min	Blood loss	Blood transfusion	US Hysterotomy scar hematoma
Sinha et al., 2003 [14]	51	78	>9	137	323 ml	1 (1.3%)	1 (1.3%)
Altgassen et al., 2006 [4]	351	654	5.3	113	ND	1	(29.2%)
Sizzi et al., 2007 [11]	2050	ND	6.4	ND	14 (0.68%) hemorrhage	3 (0.14%)	10 (0.48%)
Sinha et al., 2008 [12]	505	912	5.9	60	90 ml	ND	ND
Mettler et al., 2012 [10]	335	480	4–9	90	157 ml	0	21 (6.2%)

Note. ND: no data.