Fertility preservation for age-related fertility decline

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9950, 2014, Pages 1311-1319

  Stoop, Dominic ^a   Cobo, Ana ^b   Silber, Sherman ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b IVI Valencia   (Spain)

^c ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER THERAPY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; ONCOLOGIST; OOCYTE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; VITRIFICATION; ETHICS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; TRANSPLANTATION;

AGING; CRYOPRESERVATION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; OOCYTES; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84920622220     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61261-7     Document Type: Review

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