A guest editorial: Posthumous sperm procurement: Demand and concerns

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 806-808

  Hurwitz, Joshua M ^a   Batzer, Frances R ^a,b,c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Womens Inst Fertil Endocrinol/M   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ISOLATION; CONCEPTION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EDITORIAL; EJACULATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INFORMED CONSENT; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OOCYTE; SPERM PRESERVATION; TESTIS BIOPSY; FEMALE; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; LEGAL APPROACH; MALE; POSTHUMOUS CONCEPTION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; LEGAL APPROACH;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTHUMOUS CONCEPTION; SPERM BANKS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 9344254387     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ogx.0000145929.69990.d6     Document Type: Editorial

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