Fallopian tube recanalization: Lessons learnt and future challenges

Women's Health

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 531-549

  Allahbadia, Gautam N ^a,b   Merchant, Rubina ^b  

^a Deccan Fertility Clinic   (India)

^b Near Otters Club   (India)

Author keywords

balloon tuboplasty; coaxial catheter; Fallopian tube recanalization; falloposcopy; hysteroscopic tubal cannulation; linear everting catheter; proximal tubal obstruction

Indexed keywords

BALLOON DILATATION; CATHETERIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FALLOPOSCOPY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUOROSCOPY; GUIDE WIRE; GYNECOLOGIC INFECTION; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; HYSTEROSCOPY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROSURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MORBIDITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SALPINGITIS; TRANSCERVICAL TUBE CATHETERIZATION; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE; UTERINE TUBE OCCLUSION; UTERINE TUBE RECANALIZATION; UTERINE TUBE SURGERY;

ENDOSCOPY; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; HYSTEROSCOPY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 77954405013     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/whe.10.34     Document Type: Review

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