Uterus transplantation: On the edge

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-60

  Del Priore, Giuseppe ^a   Schlatt, Stefan ^b   Wagner, Robert ^c   Reynoso, Elena ^d   Malanowska Stega, Jeanetta ^d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d NEW YORK DOWNTOWN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

reproductive organ transplantation; uterus factor infertility; Uterus transplantation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRAFT REJECTION; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; SALPINGECTOMY; ULTRASOUND; UTERUS SURGERY; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VULVOVAGINITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; UTERUS;

EID: 78650932031     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1268704     Document Type: Article

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