Ovarian tissue cryopreservation: Benefits and risks

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 322, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 125-132

  Sonmezer, Murat ^a,b   Shamonki, Mousa Issa ^a   Oktay, Kutluk ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Fertility preservation; Human; Ovary; Risks; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; TAMOXIFEN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE FERTILITY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; OVARY; OVARY METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMPLANTATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; OOCYTES; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARY; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 27944485343     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-005-1098-4     Document Type: Review

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