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Indications

A hysterectomy is the removal of the uterus, resulting in the inability to become pregnant (sterility). May be done through the abdomen or the vagina.

Hysterectomy may be recommended for:

• severe, long-term (chronic) infections (pelvic inflammatory disease)
• severe inflammation of the lining of the uterus (endometriosis)
• tumors in the uterus
• uterine fibroids, cancer of the endometrium
• cancer of the cervix, cancer of the ovary
• severe, long-term (chronic) vaginal bleeding

Review Date: 8/31/2007
Reviewed By: Harvey Simon, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital.

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