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This is a single-blinded RCT evaluating the effect of robotic-assisted (RM) or conventional laparoscopic surgery (LM) in the management of uterine leiomyomas.


Clinical Trial Description

Uterine fibroids are the most common benign tumors of the uterus and may be presented 20%-40% of women at reproductive age.The uterine fibroids can be asymptomatic without intervention. However, they often are the cause of abnormal uterine bleeding, pelvic pain, infertility, and even miscarriage. Myomectomy, rather than hysterectomy can be one option for symptomatic women who wish to preserve their childbearing capabilities or for reasons other than for fertilit. Nowadays, patients pursue cosmetic benefit and early recovery and prompted the search for more conservative and minimally invasive surgical methods when surgical intervention is inescapable and surgical devices are improved.

The feasibility, safety and advantage of cosmetics of laparoscopic myomectomy (LM) has been confirmed after the improvement of techniques and instruments. However, it is very "unfriendly" for our surgeons because of many disadvantages such as keeping stand for long time, unable to relying on, or swaying visual field by first-assistant, etc. Since the approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in April 2005, robotic surgeries using the da Vinci Surgical System (Intuitive surgical Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA) have been applied widely in many surgical fields including gynecology, urology, orthopedics, general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery. The three-dimensional vision system and the wrist-like structure of EndoWrist instruments (Intuitive surgical Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA) recapitulating the motion of the surgeon's hand make precise procedures easier than in conventional laparoscopy, which allows robotic surgery to overcome some of the shortcomings and limitations of traditional laparoscopy. Dr. Lai and colleagues had also successfully undergone robotic surgery in many complicated gynecologic diseases in Taiwan.

However, how to choose or apply robotic-assisted (RM) or conventional laparoscopic surgery (LM) in the management of uterine leiomyomas is still an important issue for our surgeon. We still lack clear definitions about which one kind of myoma may be smoothly performed in RM or LM. The current study is aimed to compare the clinical outcome and efficacy of these 2 minimally invasive procedure in myomectomy, RM and LM, for women with symptomatic uterine fibroids, in this prospective randomised control trial. ;


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NCT number NCT04282863
Study type Interventional
Source Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital
Contact Hung-Chang Lai, M.D/Ph. D.
Phone +886-2-2249-0088
Email hclai30656@gmail.com
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date March 1, 2020
Completion date February 28, 2024

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