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Laparoscopic Tubal Patency Test

If the dye does not enter either tube where it joins the uterus on each side, this could indicate an obstruction. The canal of the tubes is so narrow at this site that it is only just visible to the eye and may have become permanently blocked by previous inflammation and infection or temporarily blocked by muscle spasm. Sometimes the dye only passes through one tube and fails to fill the other tube at all. If the tube is obstructed at its outer end, as the dye is injected the tube becomes grossly distended (known as a hydrosalpinx). With increasing pressure the dye can be occasionally forced through the sealed off end of the tube but this nearly always closes itself off to become obstructed again. http://www.laparoscopyhospital.com

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