Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I spent most of my childhood surrounded by Black women, so "uterine fibroids" was a phrase I'd hear often: in phone calls I ...

A myomectomy describes a surgical procedure involving the removal of uterine fibroids while preserving the uterus. Fibroids are noncancerous growths can that develop in or on the walls of the uterus.

A 36-year-old woman presented with a lump in her abdomen during her first pregnancy. She told clinicians she had noticed the lump before she became pregnant. She had no pain or other symptoms. The ...