Clinical use of 64-row multislice computed tomography hysterosalpingography in the evaluation of female factor infertility

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1953-1958

  Carrascosa, Patricia ^a   Baronio, Mariano ^b   Capuñay, Carlos ^a   López, Elba Martín ^a   Sueldo, Carlos ^b   Papier, Sergio ^b  

^a Department of Computed Tomography   (Argentina)

^b Centro de Estudios en Ginecología y Reproducción   (Argentina)

Author keywords

fallopian tubes; hysterosalpingography; Multislice computed tomography; uterus; virtual studies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; MULTISLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE; UTERUS DISEASE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARGENTINA; CERVIX UTERI; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; UTERUS;

EID: 55149091763     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.09.033     Document Type: Article

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