The value of saline salpingosonography as a surrogate test of tubal patency in low-resource settings

International Journal of Fertility and Women's Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 135-139

  Hoffman, L ^a   Chan, K ^a   Smith, B ^a   Okolo, Stanley ^a,b  

^a NORTH MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infertility; Saline salpingosonography; Screening; Tubal patency

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGOSTOMY; SCREENING TEST; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE TUBE; ALGORITHM; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EVALUATION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FALLOPIAN TUBE PATENCY TESTS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33644809879     PISSN: 1534892X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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