Hysterosalpingography versus laparoscopy in infertile woman

ABSTRACT

This study was performed at AI-Hussein University Hospital, From Jan. 1989 to Jan. 1990, for the comparison of the results of hysterosalpingography [HSG] versus laparoscopy as copy as a diagnostic procedure in infertile women. One hundred and fourteen infertile women were selected after exclusion of any contraindication to HSG or laparoscopy. All women were investigated by HSG using lipiodol and by laparoscopy under general anaesthesia. According to the hysterosalpingographic results, the patients were classified into 2 groups Group 1, included 18 women who had no abnormality by HSG while 15 out of them [83%] were found to have pathological findings on laparoscopy. Group 11 included 96 women who showed abnormal finding of HSG and 22 of them [23%] were found to be normal by laparoscopy. This study has proved that HSG and laparoscopy are complementary to each other for every inferile woman