Journal article
Oil‐soluble versus water‐soluble media for assessing tubal patency with hysterosalpingography or laparoscopy in subfertile women
Abstract
BACKGROUND: There has been debate in the literature for more than 40 years as to whether flushing of the Fallopian tubes enhances fertility and whether this presumed therapeutic effect is greater with oil-soluble media than with water-soluble media. A meta-analysis of the therapeutic role of oil-soluble contrast media at hysterosalpingography was published in March 1994 (Watson 1994). This Cochrane Review is an expansion and update of that …
Authors
Vandekerckhove P; Lilford R; Harada T; Hughes E; Watson A
Journal
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Vol. 2010, No. 4,
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
2000
DOI
10.1002/14651858.cd000092
ISSN
1361-6137