Oncologists' knowledge and practice towards sperm cryopreservation in Arabic communities

Journal of Cancer Survivorship

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 279-283

  Rabah, Danny M ^a   Wahdan, Iman H ^b   Merdawy, Abdelmalek ^a   Abourafe, Bassem ^a   Arafa, Mostafa A ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b High Institute of Public Health Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Arabic countries; Awareness; Knowledge and practice; Oncologists; Sperm cryopreservation; Survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRYOPRESERVATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOLOGY; SAUDI ARABIA; SPERM PRESERVATION; STATISTICS; TESTIS TUMOR;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CRYOPRESERVATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SAUDI ARABIA; SEMEN PRESERVATION; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78649634986     PISSN: 19322259     EISSN: 19322267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11764-010-0140-z     Document Type: Article

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