Pathophysiology and management of proximal tubal blockage

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 785-795

  Honoré, Gerard M ^a   Holden, Alan E C ^a   Schenken, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cornual obstruction; Cornual occlusion; Hysteroscopy; Infertility; Microsurgery; Proximal obstruction; Proximal occlusion; Selective salpingography; Tubal cannulation; Tubocornual anastomosis

Indexed keywords

CANNULATION; FEMALE; FEMALE STERILIZATION REVERSAL; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; MICROSURGERY; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UTERINE TUBE OCCLUSION; UTERINE TUBE SURGERY;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; META-ANALYSIS; MICROSURGERY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; UTERUS;

EID: 0033042658     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00014-X     Document Type: Review

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