Fallopian tissue sampling with a cytobrush during hysteroscopy: A new approach for detecting tubal infection

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 580-582

  Haeusler, Guenther ^a   Tempfer, Clemens ^a   Lehner, Rainer ^a   Sam, Christine ^a   Kainz, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

cytobrush; fallopian tissue sampling; Hysteroscopy; salpingitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTEROSCOPY; LAPAROSCOPY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SALPINGITIS; UTERINE TUBE;

EID: 0031029837     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)80092-1     Document Type: Article

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