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Conclusion

The TCTC procedure is an easy, practical diagnostic and therapeutic procedure for management of PTO. The technical simplicity, low cost, high effectiveness, and low rate of complications make TCTC an attractive alternative to more invasive and expensive laparoscopy or microsurgery (Table 12-1). Each infertility patient with a suspicion of PTO should be offered selective salpingography combined with TCTC as the first-line approach. This approach may eliminate the need for more invasive and costly procedures in many women. The future developments of new instrumentation (e.g., transcervical salpingoscopy, sometimes called falloposcopy; everted catheters; transcervical balloon tuboplasty) may expand and improve the results obtained with TCTC.

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  1. Jacek W. Graczykowski
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  1. Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 303 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA

    David B. Seifer M.D. (Director, Professor and Vice-Chair of Academic Affairs) (Director, Professor and Vice-Chair of Academic Affairs)

  2. Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 303 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA

    David B. Seifer M.D. (Director, Professor and Vice-Chair of Academic Affairs) (Director, Professor and Vice-Chair of Academic Affairs)

  3. Reproductive Endocrinologist, The Reproductive Center, Youngstown, OH, 44514, USA

    Robert L. Collins M.D. (Medical Director, Associate Professor) (Medical Director, Associate Professor)

  4. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northeast Ohio University College of Medicine, Rootstown, OH, 44272, USA

    Robert L. Collins M.D. (Medical Director, Associate Professor) (Medical Director, Associate Professor)

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Graczykowski, J.W., Seifer, D.B. (2002). Transcervical Tubal Cannulation. In: Seifer, D.B., Collins, R.L. (eds) Office-Based Infertility Practice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-21716-9_12

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