Routine hysteroscopy in infertility?

Abstract

Fifty patients from the infertility Clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital who underwent laparoscopy as part of their work-up had a routine hysteroscopy at the same time, with the Hamou II hysteroscope. In all cases carbon dioxide was used as the distending medium. Only 4 patients had abnormalities detected by hysteroscopy. Three out of those 4 abnormalities could have been diagnosed by hysterosalpingography. Compared with hysteroscopy the diagnostic value of hysterosalpingography as a routine screening procedure was found to be adequate.

• Authors: K Wiswedel
• Journal: South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde (S Afr Med J) Vol. 72 Issue 4 Pg. 257-8 (Aug 15 1987) ISSN: 0256-9574 [Print] South Africa
• PMID: 3616812 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Culdoscopy
• Diagnostic Tests, Routine
• Endoscopy
• Evaluation Studies as Topic
• Female
• Humans
• Hysterosalpingography
• Infertility, Female (diagnosis)
• Uterus (pathology)