Politics, ethics and economics: Oocyte cryopreservation in the UK

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-153

  Lockwood, Gillian ^a  

^a Midland Fertility Services   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETRORELIX; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; GANIRELIX; GLUCOSE; PROPYLENE GLYCOL;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; ETHICS; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE STERILITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZING; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LEUKEMIA; MEDICAL ETHICS; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DONATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; POLITICS; RELIGION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; THAWING; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0038784434     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61701-4     Document Type: Note

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