Semen quality and cryopreservation in adolescent cancer patients

Human Reproduction

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3157-3161

  Bahadur, G ^a   Ling, K L E ^b   Hart, R ^a   Ralph, D ^c   Wafa, R ^a   Ashraf, A ^a   Jaman, N ^a   Mahmud, S ^a   Oyede, A W ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Cancer; Cryopreservation; Semen; Sperm

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EWING SARCOMA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FREEZING; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; PARENT COUNSELING; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PUBERTY; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS CANCER; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CHILD; COUNSELING; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERM; TESTIS TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COUNSELING; CRYOPRESERVATION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OSTEOSARCOMA; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM COUNT; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1842844049     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/17.12.3157     Document Type: Article

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