Hydrosalpinx

Hydrosalpinx
Hydrosalpinx
	Left hydrosalpinx on gynecologic ultrasonography
Specialty	Gynecology

A hydrosalpinx is a condition that occurs when a fallopian tube is blocked and fills with serous or clear fluid near the ovary (distal to the uterus). The blocked tube may become substantially distended giving the tube a characteristic sausage-like or retort-like shape. The condition is often bilateral and the affected tubes may reach several centimeters in diameter. The blocked tubes cause infertility. A fallopian tube filled with blood is a hematosalpinx, and with pus a pyosalpinx.^[1]

Hydrosalpinx is a composite of the Greek words ὕδωρ (hydōr – "water"^[2]) and σάλπιγξ (sálpinx – "trumpet"^[2]); its plural is hydrosalpinges.

^ "Hydrosalpinx". www.reproductivefacts.org. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
^ ^a ^b Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[1] "Hydrosalpinx". www.reproductivefacts.org. Retrieved 2022-06-30.

[Liddell_&_Scott-2] Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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