A surgical procedure to remove fibrous muscle tissue or a fibromyoma (a benign tumor of fibrous and muscle tissue).
From fibro- + myec- (Greek mys, 'muscle') + -tomy (Greek -tomia, 'cutting'). This surgical term emerged as modern medicine developed techniques to remove mixed tissue tumors.
Surgeons performing fibromyectomy are essentially tissue archaeologists—they must carefully excavate a tumor that's woven into surrounding healthy muscle without damaging what you need to keep.
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