Should laparoscopy be a mandatory component of the infertility evaluation in infertile women with normal hysterosalpingogram or suspected unilateral distal tubal pathology?

European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 64-68

  Lavy, Yuval ^a   Lev Sagie, Ahinoam ^a   Holtzer, Hananel ^a   Revel, Ariel ^a   Hurwitz, Arye ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hysterosalpingography; Infertility evaluation; Laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; OVULATION INDUCTION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE; UTERINE TUBE OCCLUSION;

EID: 1942539914     PISSN: 03012115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2003.09.035     Document Type: Article

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