Fibroids are like weeds.

Ms. Zhang, 36, held out her left arm, which had an eggplant-sized crater, for an ultrasound review. Because of the fibroid, her left arm received four surgeries, one chemotherapy and two microwave ablation treatments, and the sword of recurrence still hangs over her head. In the spring of the previous year, a small hard lump grew underneath Ms. Zhang’s left shoulder joint, and not long after, the small hard lump grew bigger and bigger and started to hurt. She went to the hospital, the doctor quickly for her surgery to cut off this hard lump, pathology shows that this is an aggressive fibroid, high recurrence is the characteristics of this benign tumor. Sure enough, six months later, a hard lump of flesh grew where Ms. Zhang had been operated on, and it still hurt so much that it had to be removed again. In order to clean up the diseased cells, a large chunk of muscle had to be scooped away each time the surgery was performed, leaving Ms. Zhang with a pit like an eggplant on her upper left arm. After this surgery, she followed her doctor’s advice and went for a radiotherapy session to stifle the recurrence. However, last May, Ms. Zhang’s fibroid tumor came back. “What should I do? If I keep cutting, my hand will be ruined.” Ms. Zhang hoped to find a treatment other than surgery. This time, Wuhan Medical Treatment Center (Wuhan Infectious Diseases Hospital) ultrasound intervention center director Yu Songyuan, with microwave ablation minimally invasive method of Ms. Zhang’s arm recurrence of fibroma killed, this time the treatment to make the recurrence of a year interval. In May of this year, Ms. Zhang’s fibroid again “visit”, to Wuhan medical treatment center ultrasound intervention, director Yu only a few minutes, the tumor will be ablated, hospitalized for only three days to go home. Yu Songyuan said, invasive fibroma from the fibrous tissue of a rare species of tumor, the disease of young adults, the incidence of parts mainly in the scapula, abdominal wall, lower limbs, pelvis, it will not metastasize, and rarely malignant, but the recurrence rate of up to 25% -40%, so the treatment is very difficult. Compared with surgery, the microwave ablation method has much less damage to normal tissues, is operated with ultrasound-guided fine needles, is minimally invasive, and can be repeated many times, therefore, this disease also emphasizes early detection and early treatment, to avoid the loss of muscle tissue in the upper arm like Ms. Zhang.