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Research Article

Magnetic resonance-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound for uterine fibroids: Mid-term outcomes of 36 patients treated with the Sonalleve system

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Pages 764-770 | Received 11 Jan 2015, Accepted 14 Jun 2015, Published online: 14 Sep 2015

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Figure 1. Timescale for patient follow-up. In cases in which a surgical intervention or embolisation was performed, the follow-up period represents the time from the MRgFUS treatment to the surgical/embolisation procedure.

Figure 1. Timescale for patient follow-up. In cases in which a surgical intervention or embolisation was performed, the follow-up period represents the time from the MRgFUS treatment to the surgical/embolisation procedure.

Table 1. Patient characteristics (n = 36).

Table 2. Details of the Transformed Symptom Severity scores (8 items). All data are presented as medians (interquartile ranges in brackets).

Figure 2. Example of fibroid volume shrinkage at 6 months and the NPV at baseline. All images are axial T1-weighted images obtained with a contrast agent: (A) fibroid before treatment, (B) NPV after treatment, and (C) fibroid at 6 months.

Figure 2. Example of fibroid volume shrinkage at 6 months and the NPV at baseline. All images are axial T1-weighted images obtained with a contrast agent: (A) fibroid before treatment, (B) NPV after treatment, and (C) fibroid at 6 months.

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