Fertility preservation in the transgender patient: Expanding oncofertility care beyond cancer

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 868-871

  Wallace, Sumer Allensworth ^a   Blough, Kiara L ^a   Kondapalli, Laxmi A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Fertility preservation; Oocyte cryopreservation; Transgender man; Transgender medicine

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GANIRELIX; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANDROGEN THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONSULTATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSGENDER; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARIAN RESERVE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PATIENT COUNSELING; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEX REASSIGNMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; VITRIFICATION; MALE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PROCEDURES; TRANSGENDER;

ADOLESCENT; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVULATION INDUCTION; SEX REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURES; TRANSGENDER PERSONS;

EID: 84910650096     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: 14730766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09513590.2014.920005     Document Type: Article

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