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Table 5 Group B (Versapoint®) demographic characteristics, type and size of myomas, and associated hysteroscopic findings and symptoms

From: Hysteroscopic myomectomy with the IBS® Integrated Bigatti Shaver versus conventional bipolar resectoscope: a retrospective comparative study

No. of patients

51

No. of myomas

56

Age, mean ± SD (95 % CI), years

48.04 ± 11.4 (44.8–51.3)

Parity, no. (%)

 Nulliparous

23. (45.1)

 Pluriparous

28 (54.9)

Sub mucous myomas, no. (%)

 1

46 (90.2 %)

  > 1

5 (9.8 %)

Myoma size, mm

 Principal myoma, mean ± SD (95 % CI)

25.2 ± 14.6 (21.1–29.3)

 Second myoma, mean ± SD (95 % CI)

20.8 ± 12.1 (18.7–24.9)

Type of principal myoma, no. (%)

 Wamsteker classification

 

 G0 18 (32.1)

 

 G1 18 (32.1)

 

 G2 20 (35.8)

 

Associated hysteroscopic findings, no. (%)

 None

45 (88.2)

 Polyp

6 (11.8)

 Synechiae

0 (0)

Symptoms, no. (%)a

 None

27 (52.9)

 Menorrhagia

12 (23.5)

 Infertility

6 (11.7)

 Pelvic pain

6 (11.7)

  1. Normally distributed variables are summarized as mean and lower and upper quartiles computed at 0.05; non-normally distributed variables are given as median and interquartile range
  2. SD standard deviation, CI confidence interval 95 %
  3. aPatient may have more than one symptom