Patient characteristics	Treatment options
Asymptomatic women	Observation
Symptomatic women who desire fertility preservation	Nonsurgical treatment or myomectomy
Symptomatic women who do not desire future fertility but wish to preserve the uterus	Nonsurgical treatment or myomectomy, myolysis, or uterine artery embolization
Women who desire fertility preservation and have had a pregnancy complicated by uterine fibroid tumors	Myomectomy
Infertile women with distortion of uterine cavity	Myomectomy
Women with severe symptoms who desire definitive treatment	Hysterectomy