Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia

Introduction: In Malaysia, infertility affects one out of seven couples. And over the decades, infertility rates in the country have been increasing between 1 0 and 15 per cent. Despite this figure, awareness of this and the treatments available are still lacking. Many are not aware that inferti...

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Main Author:	Syed Yasin, Sharifah Nor Ashikin
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2010
Subjects:	R Medicine
Online Access:	http://eprints.usm.my/52834/1/DR%20SHARIFAH%20NOR%20ASHIKIN%20BINTI%20SYED%20YASIN-24%20pages.pdf
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spelling	my-usm-ep.528342023-01-15T07:01:31Z Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia 2010 Syed Yasin, Sharifah Nor Ashikin R Medicine Introduction: In Malaysia, infertility affects one out of seven couples. And over the decades, infertility rates in the country have been increasing between 1 0 and 15 per cent. Despite this figure, awareness of this and the treatments available are still lacking. Many are not aware that infertility is a disease of the reproductive system which in the majority of cases can be treated. Tubal factor accounts for 15 - 30% of infertility in all women in developing countries with high rates of pelvic inflammatory disease. Hysterosalpingogram is an important diagnostic test in the evaluation of intrauterine abnormalities and tubal patency in the infertility workup of female patients. Many studies had been done to assess the accuracy of hysterosalpingogram as compared to laparoscopy as the gold standard. The recent study showed good concordance rate of the findings investigated by both modalities. Objectives: To identify the characteristics, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingography in HUSM. 2010 Thesis http://eprints.usm.my/52834/ http://eprints.usm.my/52834/1/DR%20SHARIFAH%20NOR%20ASHIKIN%20BINTI%20SYED%20YASIN-24%20pages.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Sains Malaysia Pusat Pengajian Sains Perubatan
institution	Universiti Sains Malaysia
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language	English
topic	R Medicine
spellingShingle	R Medicine Syed Yasin, Sharifah Nor Ashikin Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
description	Introduction: In Malaysia, infertility affects one out of seven couples. And over the decades, infertility rates in the country have been increasing between 1 0 and 15 per cent. Despite this figure, awareness of this and the treatments available are still lacking. Many are not aware that infertility is a disease of the reproductive system which in the majority of cases can be treated. Tubal factor accounts for 15 - 30% of infertility in all women in developing countries with high rates of pelvic inflammatory disease. Hysterosalpingogram is an important diagnostic test in the evaluation of intrauterine abnormalities and tubal patency in the infertility workup of female patients. Many studies had been done to assess the accuracy of hysterosalpingogram as compared to laparoscopy as the gold standard. The recent study showed good concordance rate of the findings investigated by both modalities. Objectives: To identify the characteristics, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingography in HUSM.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Syed Yasin, Sharifah Nor Ashikin
author_facet	Syed Yasin, Sharifah Nor Ashikin
author_sort	Syed Yasin, Sharifah Nor Ashikin
title	Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
title_short	Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
title_full	Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
title_fullStr	Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
title_sort	characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in hospital universiti sains malaysia
granting_institution	Universiti Sains Malaysia
granting_department	Pusat Pengajian Sains Perubatan
publishDate	2010
url	http://eprints.usm.my/52834/1/DR%20SHARIFAH%20NOR%20ASHIKIN%20BINTI%20SYED%20YASIN-24%20pages.pdf
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Characteristic, accuracy and outcome of hysterosalpingogram in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia

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