Diagnostic and therapeutic value of selective salpingography and tubal catheterization in an unselected infertile population

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 613-617

  Papaioannou, Spyros ^a,b   Afnan, Masood ^a   Girling, Alan J ^a,c   Ola, Bolarinde ^a   Olufowobi, Olufemi ^a   Coomarasamy, Aravinthan ^a   Sharif, Kaldoun ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Birmingham Women's Hospital ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infertility; Selective salpingography; Survival analysis; Tubal catheterization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CONCEPTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE TUBE; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE;

EID: 0037338239     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04704-0     Document Type: Article

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