Fertility preservation in girls and adolescents before chemotherapy and radiation - Review of the literature

Klinische Padiatrie

Volumn 223, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 126-130

  Lawrenz, B ^a   Henes, M ^a   Neunhoeffer, E ^a   Fehm, T ^a   Lang, P ^b   Schwarze, C P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b University Children's Hospital Tuebingen   (Germany)

Author keywords

adolescents; childhood cancer; fertility; fertility preserving methods; girls; ovarian toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; IFOSFAMIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; BONE DENSITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CRYOPRESERVATION; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GROWTH RETARDATION; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; NIGHT SWEAT; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY FUNCTION; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVARY TRANSPOSITION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PREMATURITY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SIDE EFFECT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; TERATOGENICITY; VAGINAL DRYNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHILD; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; NEOPLASMS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PREGNANCY; RADIATION INJURIES; STILLBIRTH; SURVIVORS;

EID: 79956157342     PISSN: 03008630     EISSN: 14393824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1275292     Document Type: Review

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