Tubal Factor Infertility. Diagnosis and Management in the Era of Assisted Reproductive Technology

Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 551-566

  Dun, Erica C ^a   Nezhat, Ceana H ^a,b,c  

^a Atlanta Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery and Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

In vitro fertilization; Microsurgery; Tubal factor infertility; Tubal occlusion

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; APPENDIX PERFORATION; CHROMOPERTUBATION; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTAL TUBAL OCCLUSION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FEMALE STERILIZATION REVERSAL; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HYDROSALPINX; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MICROSURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MYOMA; NEOSALPINGOSTOMY; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PELVIC TUBERCULOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL TUBAL OCCLUSION; RECANALIZATION; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SALPINGECTOMY; SALPINGITIS; SALPINGOSTOMY; SCAR FORMATION; SONOHYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TUBAL FACTOR INFERTILITY; TUBERCULOSIS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UTERINE TUBE LIGATION; UTERINE TUBE OCCLUSION;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LAPAROSCOPY; MATERNAL AGE; MICROSURGERY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; SALPINGITIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84870223074     PISSN: 08898545     EISSN: 15580474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ogc.2012.09.006     Document Type: Review

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