Two-dimensional HyCoSy with contrast tuned imaging technology and a second-generation contrast media for the assessment of tubal patency in an infertility program

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1158-1161

  Lanzani, Chiara ^a   Savasi, Valeria ^a   Leone, Francesco P G ^a   Ratti, Martina ^a   Ferrazzi, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

contrast tuned technology; HyCoSy; second generation contrast media; Tubal patency

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; SONOVUE;

ADULT; AIR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; LAPAROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE TUBE;

ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FALLOPIAN TUBE PATENCY TESTS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LAPAROSCOPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 69049088002     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.07.1746     Document Type: Article

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