Testicular tissue transplantation for fertility preservation

Fertility Preservation: Emerging Technologies and Clinical Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 331-343

  Rodriguez Sosa, Jose R ^a   Schlatt, Stefan ^b   Dobrinski, Ina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation of testis tissue; Fertility preservation in men; Male fertility; Testicular tissue transplantation; Xenografting in primates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863203562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/9781441917836_25     Document Type: Chapter

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