Ovarian tissue freezing: Current status

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 222-230

  Donnez, Jacques ^a   Dolmans, Marie Madeleine ^b  

^a Infertility Research Unit Société de Recherche Pour l'Infertilité SRI   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

freezing; ovarian tissue cryopreservation; ovary; reimplantation

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; FREEZE THAWING; FREEZING; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LIVE BIRTH; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARIAN PRESERVATION; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMPLANTATION; REVIEW; VITRIFICATION; COMPLICATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INFERTILITY THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84929460982     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: 1473656X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0000000000000171     Document Type: Review

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