Transplantation of female genital organs

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 271-291

  Brännström, Mats ^a   Díaz García, César ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cancer; Immunosuppression; Infertility; Ovary; Transplantation; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; BUSULFAN; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CHLORAMBUCIL; CHLORMETHINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTISONE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; GONADOTROPIN; MELATONIN; MELPHALAN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; TACROLIMUS; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EXPERIMENTAL DOG; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIBROSIS; FREEZE THAWING; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYOMECTOMY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVARY TRANSPLANTATION; OVIDUCTAL TRANSPLANTATION; PREGNANCY; PRIMATE; RADIATION INJURY; SHEEP; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL RATE; UTERUS MALFORMATION; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS TRANSPLANTATION; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 79956076654     PISSN: 13418076     EISSN: 14470756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2010.01416.x     Document Type: Article

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