Oocyte cryopreservation: Advances and drawbacks

Minerva Ginecologica

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 485-500

  Dovey, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertility; Oocytes; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE;

ANEUPLOIDY; APGAR SCORE; BLASTOCYTE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEHYDRATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOLLOW UP; FREEZING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; ITALY; LIVE BIRTH; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POLYPLOIDY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VITRIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO DISPOSITION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MICE; OOCYTE DONATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84875313094     PISSN: 00264784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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