Piedmont Atlanta Hospital lets gynecologists use laparoscopic power morcellators. In the same city, Emory Healthcare stopped using the devices. The contrast underscores a simmering debate.
Piedmont Atlanta Hospital lets gynecologists use laparoscopic power morcellators with informed consent from patients. In the same city, Emory Healthcare has halted use of the gynecological cutting tools, which regulators have warned can spread hidden cancers, in its hospitals.
The contrast underscores a debate simmering five years after the Food and Drug Administration first advised against using morcellators, which until then were widely used in minimally invasive hysterectomies and to remove uterine growths called fibroids....
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