The value of hysterosalpingography in the diagnosis of tubal pathology among infertile patients

Medicina

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 439-448

  Tvarijonavičiene, Egle ^a   Nadišauskiene, Ruta Jolanta ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Hysterosalpingography; Laparoscopy; Likelihood ratio; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; LAPAROSCOPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LAPAROSCOPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 54749157100     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/medicina44060057     Document Type: Article

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