Abstract
One-half of the women who desire to bear a child but who are unable to have tubal abnormalities. In most cases the tubes are either occluded or surrounded by peritoneal adhesions.5 Gynecologists have long been interested in surgical correction of these defects, but initial results were quite poor. Greenhill surveyed 107 gynecologists in 1936 who were members of The American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists or The American Gynecologic Society. Eighty-two percent had never performed a tubal implantation and the entire group had performed 818 tuboplastic operations. Thirty-six live births resulted from these procedures for an incidence of 1 live baby per 22 operations. The majority of gynecologists surveyed were definitely opposed to tubal infertility surgery.7
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Fayez, J.A. (1997). Infertility Surgery of the Fallopian Tube. In: Manual of Gynecologic Surgery. Comprehensive Manuals of Surgical Specialties. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0073-1_16
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