[Imaging of female infertility].
Medical treatment of a couple's infertility depends upon the cause(s) of infertility. The goals of imaging are to determine these causes (male, female, mixed, unexplained), to evaluate their severity and type on the female side central, ovarian, uterine, tubal, peritoneal, endometriosis, in order to propose an adapted treatment. Imaging modalities are essentially non ionising (US and MRI). Hysterosalpingogram retains its indication to study tubal patency, it can be completed by tubal catheterisation in cases of proximal tubal obstruction.
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Radiologie et Imagerie Médicale, CHU Dupuytren, 2 avenue Martin Luther King, 87042 Limoges cedex, France. antoine.maubon@unilim.fr
Pouquet
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Piver
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Mazet
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Viala-Trentini
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Rouanet
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D004715:Endometriosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007047:Hysterosalpingography; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011127:Polyps / Q000175:diagnosis; D012488:Salpingitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014463:Ultrasonography; D018608:Ultrasonography, Doppler; D014591:Uterine Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging