Table 1.
Incidence of adhesions after myomectomy
| Author Study Year Control group versus treatment group |
Number of patients (n) with adhesions (%) |
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| Control AM, n (%) | Treatment AM, n (%) | Control LM, n (%) | Treatment LM, n (%) | |
| Mais et al., 1995[55] Surgery alone versus Interceed® |
50 (88) | 50 (40) | ||
| Dubuisson et al., 1998[22] | 26 (26.9) | NA | ||
| Di Gregorio et al., 2002[18] | 121 (1.6) | NA | ||
| Pellicano et al., 2003[25] Surgery alone versus Hyalobarrier® |
18 (77.8) | 18 (27.8) | ||
| Takeuchi et al., 2005[39] Surgery alone versus fibrin sheet versus fibrin gel |
32 (62.5) | Fibrin sheet: 30 (67.7) Fibrin gel: 29 (34.5) |
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| Mais et al., 2006[61] Surgery alone versus Hyalobarrier® |
22 (59) | 21 (38) | ||
| Takeuchi et al., 2008[17] | 372 (37.9) | NA | ||
| Trew et al., 2011[16] LRS versus Adept® |
170 (75.4) | Not specified | ||
| Kumakiri et al., 2012[27] Interceed® |
NA | 108 (38) | ||
| Tinelli et al., 2011[15] Surgery alone versus Interceed® |
135 (28.1) | 136 (22) | 137 (22.6) | 138 (15.9) |
| Tsuji et al., 2005[63] Surgery alone versus Seprafilm® |
13 (76.9) | 21 (14.3) | ||
| Abu-Elhasan et al., 2014[62] Intraoperative irrigation versus LRS for 48 h |
21 (81) | 23 (52.2) | ||
| Cezar et al., 2014[60] LRS versus PREVADH™ |
26 (76) | 28 (29) | ||
AM: Abdominal myomectomy, LM: Laparoscopic myomectomy, LRS: Lactated Ringer’s solution, NA: Not applicable