Is lower-dose digital fluorography diagnostically adequate compared with higher-dose digital radiography for the diagnosis of fallopian tube stenosis?

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 126-130

  Murase, Eiko ^a   Ishiguchi, Tsuneo ^a   Ikeda, Mitsuru ^a   Ishigaki, Takeo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluoroscopy, digital; Radiation exposure; Radiography, digital; Salpingography; Sterility

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOTROLAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FLUOROGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE; UTERINE TUBE OCCLUSION;

ADULT; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0033993528     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002709910025     Document Type: Article

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