Diagnostic value of sonohysterography in the determination of fallopian tube patency as an initial step of routine infertility assessment

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1671-1677

  Hajishafiha, Masomeh ^a   Zobairi, Taher ^a   Zanjani, Vahide Rasoli ^a   Ghasemi Rad, Mohammad ^a   Yekta, Zahra ^a   Mladkova, Nikol ^b  

^a URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Hysterosalpingography; Infertility; Laparoscopy; Sonohysterography; Tubal obstruction

Indexed keywords

LAPAROSCOPY;

ADVERSE EFFECT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALLOPIAN TUBE; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; SONOHYSTEROGRAPHY; TUBAL OBSTRUCTION;

DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE;

ADULT; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FALLOPIAN TUBE PATENCY TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 74749098082     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2009.28.12.1671     Document Type: Article

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