[Laparoscopy in the decision of treatment strategy for the infertile couple].

Purpose: to evaluate the contribution of diagnostic laparoscopy to approach the infertile couple.

Methods: retrospective analysis of 86 consecutive cases of patients who were accompanied in the infertility appointments and were submitted to diagnostic laparoscopy from January 2004 to December 2006. Eighty-two of these patients had been submitted to hysterosalpingography (HSG) prior to laparoscopy.