Frontiers in Medicine
High-intensity focused ultrasound combined with syndrome differentiation-based individualized herbal therapy and 12-month outcomes in patients with adenomyosis: a prospective non-randomized study
Objective To evaluate the association of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) combined with syndrome differentiation-based individualized traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) herbal therapy with 12-month clinical outcomes compared with HIFU monotherapy in patients with adenomyosis (AM). Methods This prospective non-randomized, patient-preference, parallel-controlled study enrolled 88 patients with adenomyosis between November 2021 and November 2023; 87 completed 12-month follow-up and were analyzed (HIFU, n = 45; …