Fallopian Tubes & Endometrium
This part of the tube is where fertilization occurs.
What is ampulla?
These two hormones decrease during menopause.
What is estrogen & progesterone?
This is the surgical sterilization procedure performed on the fallopian tube.
What is tubal ligation?
These are the 2 acute and latent risks associated with acute or chronic PID.
What is TOA and increased chance of ectopic pregnancy?
This cause for infertility is from functional endometrial tissue that is ectopic in location and leads to adhesions within the pelvis.
What is endometriosis?
This is a blood-filled fallopian tube
What is hematosalpinx?
This therapy, when not balanced properly, increases the risk of endometrial hyperplasia, endometrial cancer, breast cancer, thromboembolism, HTN, and diabetes.
What is estrogen replacement therapy?
This is a T-shaped IUD that is very echogenic and produces shadowing on ultrasound.
What is paragard? Or Copper T?
This is the name for thickened, irregular endometrium that is caused from an ascending PID infection.
What is endometritis?
This cause for infertility is associated with Stein-Levanthal Syndrome.
What is PCOS?
This is an infection of the fallopian tube.
What is salpingitis?
This drug is often given to certain types of breast cancer patients and inhibits estrogen effects on breast tissue. It may also cause cystic or heterogenous changes in the endometrium.
What is Tamoxifen?
This is a previous sterilization method that involved placing tiny coils in the interstitial area of the uterus/fallopian tube.
What is Essure?
This is the name for adhesions that fuse the tubes & ovaries together. This is the name for an abscess of the tubes and/or ovaries.
What is tubo-ovarian complex? What is tubo-ovarian abscess?
This cause for infertility is due to synechia or intrauterine adhesions in the endometrial cavity that are a result of scar tissue formation, typically from a surgical procedure.
What is Asher syndrome?
This is a rare cancer of the fallopian tube.
What is fallopian tube adenocarinoma?
This is the upper limit of normal endometrial thickness for a PMP woman who is NOT bleeding. This is the upper limit of normal endometrial thickness for a PMP woman is bleeding.
What is 8mm? What is 5mm?
This is the most common female genital tract carcinoma, and is usually an adenocarcinoma. It is usually seen at ages 50-65.
What is endometrial carcinoma?
This is the sonographic appearance of PID that has formed into a TOA.
What is hydrosalpinx, hematosalpinx, or pyosalpinx with an associated complex mass in the adnexa?
This infertility treatment involves placing a formed zygote that was fertilized outside of the body into the fallopian tube via endoscopic surgery.
What is ZIFT?
This endometrial thickening is a result of estrogen stimulation and causes abnormal vaginal bleeding, but could also occur due to PCOS, obesity, tamoxifen use, of estrogen-producing ovarian tumors.
What is endometrial hyperplasia?
Postmenopausal bleeding can be caused by what 7 things?
What is endometrial atrophy, uncontrolled HRT, endometrial hyperplasia, endometrial polyps, leiomyoma, endometrial cancer, and certain ovarian tumors?
These are areas of hyperplastic endometrial tissue that may cause abnormal vaginal bleeding.
What is endometrial polyps?
This is how to identify tuboovarian complex on ultrasound.
This consequence of fertility treatment results in enlarged ovaries filled with multiple theca-lutein cysts and puts the patient at risk for ovarian torsion, nausea & vomiting, pleural effusion, renal failure, & thromboembolism.
What is ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome?