Contrast ultrasound: a simple-to-use phase-shifting medium offers saline infusion sonography-like images

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 369-373

  de Ziegler, Dominique ^a  

^a Nyon Medical Center   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hysterosonography; ultrasound; uterus

Indexed keywords

CARBOPOL 974P; ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; PHASE SHIFTING MEDIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST ULTRASOUND; DRUG FORMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METRORRHAGIA; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTERUS; VAGINA;

EID: 67649112612     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.04.032     Document Type: Article

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