Pregnancies and live births after 20 transplantations of cryopreserved ovarian tissue in a single center

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 462-468

  Dittrich, Ralf ^a   Hackl, Janina ^a   Lotz, Laura ^a   Hoffmann, Inge ^a   Beckmann, Matthias W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

cryopreserved ovarian tissue; Fertility preservation; live birth; Pregnancy; transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BROAD LIGAMENT; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVE BIRTH; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OOCYTE DONATION; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; OVARY CANCER; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY FUNCTION; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; YOUNG ADULT; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; NEOPLASMS; OVARY; PRIMARY OVARIAN INSUFFICIENCY; PROCEDURES; TRANSPLANTATION; TRENDS;

ADULT; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; NEOPLASMS; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY OVARIAN INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923171991     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.10.045     Document Type: Article

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