title: 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.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003464:Culdoscopy; D003955:Diagnostic Tests, Routine; D004724:Endoscopy; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007047:Hysterosalpingography; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014599:Uterus / Q000473:pathology*