Female fertility preservation: Practical and ethical considerations of an underused procedure

Cancer Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 333-339

  Jenninga, Esther ^a   Hilders, Carina G ^a,b   Louwe, Leoni A ^a   Peters, Alexander A ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b REINIER DE GRAAF HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Female fertility preservation; Infertility; Malignancy; Ovarian tissue cryopreservation; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; PREDNISONE; VINBLASTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GYNECOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NETHERLANDS; ORGAN PRESERVATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OVARY; OVARY TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 55349086925     PISSN: 15289117     EISSN: 1540336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PPO.0b013e31818860ac     Document Type: Article

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