First live birth in Germany after re-transplantation of cryopreserved ovarian tissue: Original device for initiation of ice formation

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 58, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 933-938

  Isachenko, Vladimir ^a   Isachenko, Evgenia ^a   Keck, Gudrun ^b   Dittrich, Ralf ^c   Montag, Markus ^d   Van Der Ven, Hans ^e   Mallmann, Peter ^a   Müller, Andreas ^c   Distler, Wolfgang ^b   Beckmann, Matthias W ^c   Rahimi, Gohar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooling; Cryopreservation; Human; Ice formation; Live birth; Ovarian tissue

Indexed keywords

ICE;

ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DEVICE; LIVE BIRTH; LOW TEMPERATURE; OVARY; RETRANSPLANTATION; TAMPON; THAWING;

ADULT; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; FREEZING; GERMANY; HUMANS; ICE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LIVE BIRTH; OVARY; PREGNANCY; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 84868517458     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7754/CIin.Lab.2012.120224     Document Type: Article

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