RADIONUCLIDE HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY FOR EVALUATION OF FALLOPIAN-TUBE PATENCY

  • 1 January 1985
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 26  (8) , 868-874
Abstract
A prospective study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of radionuclide hysterosalpingography (RNHSG) using a technique with some modifications, that was described by Iturralde and Ventner. As these investigators demonstrated, Tc laeled human albumin microspheres (HAM) will normally migrate spontaneously from the vagina to the ovaries. In the presence of fallopian tube obstruction, fibrosis and/or lack of motility, this migration does not take place, and the presence or absence of migration of HAM can be imaged with a .gamma. camera. In the evaluation of 52 tubes the efficiency of RNHSG for evaluation of fallopian tube patency when compared with contrast hystereosalpingography and/or direct observation of surgical pathology evidently was over 94%. RNHSG is an essentially innocuous technique for assessing functional and mechanical fallopian tube obstruction that can be performed with conventional nuclear imaging equipment.

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