Try Mr Chris Sutton, C. Gynaecologist at Chelsea & Wesminster Hospital
+/or Royal County Hospital, Surrey . Yes its real. I think he does it
Roger Leary. GP, Esher, Surrey
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Treharne Jones <[log in to unmask]>
To: GP-UK <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 29 September 1998 21:36
Subject: New form of hysterectomy
>Patient came for a chat about her impending hysterectomy, fears of
surgery
>etc. Apparently she had read some article which said that if you didn't
>have a fatal pulmonary embolus post-op then you were one of the lucky
few.
>Nothing new so far.
>
>Then she went on to ask about a 'new form of surgery for fibroids'
which
>works by shutting off the blood supply to the lumps so that they
shrivel up
>and go away, all without the need for a hysterectomy. This was a new
one on
>me - is she talking about some form of interventionist radiology where
they
>shove rubbish down a tube to snarl up the arterial supply as they do
with
>some tumours? Is anyone doing this procedure or does it just exist in
the
>minds of one radical colleague 'Amazing Medical Breakthrough'.
>
>All knowledge gratefully received.
>
>Robert Treharne Jones
>
>aka Wizard Wheeze Computing
>Tel: +44 (1803) 605359
>Email (Home): [log in to unmask]
>Email (Work): [log in to unmask]
>
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