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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 25.
Published in final edited form as: Obstet Gynecol. 2017 Jun;129(6):1007–1013. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000002035

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1.

Surgical approach by percentages of all myomectomies by annual quarter, 2012–2015. Laparoscopic (blue line) and abdominal (red line) myomectomy were used comparably until quarter 2 of 2014 after which significantly more myomectomies were performed using the abdominal approach (P<.001). Gray box corresponds to washout period for analysis, January to March 2014. *Wall Street Journal (WSJ) communication December 18, 2013.2 †U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety communication April 17, 2014.3