Uterine cavity assessment prior to IVF

Women's Health

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 841-848

  Pundir, Jyotsna ^a   El Toukhy, Tarek ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

hysteroscopy; infertility; IVF; outpatient hysteroscopy; recurrent implantation failure hysterosalpingography; saline hysterosonography; subfertility; transvaginal ultrasound scan

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; HYSTEROSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY RATE; REVIEW; SALINE HYSTEROSONOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; UTERUS CAVITY; UTERUS DISEASE;

FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERUS;

EID: 78649968133     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/whe.10.61     Document Type: Review

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