Sperm freezing in transsexual women

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1069-1071

  Wierckx, Katrien ^a   Stuyver, Isabelle ^a   Weyers, Steven ^a   Hamada, Alaa ^b   Agarwal, Ashok ^b   De Sutter, Petra ^a   Sjoen, Guy T ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOPRESERVATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LETTER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSSEXUALISM;

CRYOPRESERVATION; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 84869217893     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-012-0012-x     Document Type: Letter

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