Outpatient hysteroscopy: A routine investigation before assisted reproductive techniques?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 272-276

  El Mazny, Akmal ^a   Abou Salem, Nermeen ^a   El Sherbiny, Walid ^a   Saber, Walid ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive techniques; infertility; intrauterine pathology; IVF ICSI ET; office hysteroscopy; outpatient hysteroscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOMA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; OUTPATIENTS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTERUS;

EID: 78650420004     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.06.033     Document Type: Article

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