What do reproductive-age women who undergo oocyte cryopreservation think about the process as a means to preserve fertility?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Hodes Wertz, Brooke ^a   Druckenmiller, Sarah ^a   Smith, Meghan ^a   Noyes, Nicole ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

fertility preservation; Oocyte cryopreservation; quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONCEPTION; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIVORCED PERSON; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MARRIED PERSON; MOTIVATION; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CRYOPRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RELIGION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84887050983     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.07.201     Document Type: Article

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