The potential value of tubal perfusion pressures measured during selective salpingography in predicting fertility

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 358-363

  Papaioannou, Spyros ^a   Afnan, Masoud ^a   Girling, Alan J ^b   Coomarasamy, Aravinthan ^a   McHugo, Josephine M ^a   Sharif, Khaldoun ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infertility; Selective salpingography; Tubal catheterization; Tubal perfusion pressures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CODING; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UTERINE TUBE;

EID: 0037323807     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deg049     Document Type: Article

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