Ninety women, who attended the infertility clinic, were evaluated. Hysterosalpingography and laparoscopy with chromopertubation was done in all these 90 patients for assessment of tubal patency. The study analysed the efficacy of HSG versus laparoscopy and compared the correlation between the two methods. The results of the study showed that in diagnosing a patent tube the correlation between HSG and laparoscopy is 75% for patent tubes and 73% for blocked tubes. The sensitivity of HSG in diagnosing tubal pathology was 81% while specificity is 71%. A high false positive rate of 29% in HSG was shown in this study.
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