Fertility preservation: Nonsurgical and surgical options

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-154

  Morris, Stephanie N ^a,c   Ryley, David ^b  

^a NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

embryo cryopreservation; Fertility preservation; gonadotoxicity; oocyte cryopreservation; ovarian tissue cryopreservation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CELL CULTURE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CRYOPRESERVATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE FERTILITY; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IN VITRO MATURATION; OOCYTE; OOPHOREXY; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; OVARIAN RESERVE; OVARIAN TRANSPOSITION; OVARY CANCER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURE LABOR; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; NEOPLASMS; OOCYTES; OVARY; PREGNANCY; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 79953175989     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1272477     Document Type: Article

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