The montreal criteria for the ethical feasibility of uterine transplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 439-447

  Lefkowitz, Ariel ^a   Edwards, Marcel ^a   Balayla, Jacques ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ethics; experimentation; infertility; reproductive endocrinology; uterine factor infertility; uterine transplant; uterus transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DONOR; EXPERIMENTATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MEDICAL ETHICS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE TRANSPLANTATION; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; ETHICS, RESEARCH; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; UTERUS;

EID: 84858450341     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2012.01438.x     Document Type: Article

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