Pediatric and Adolescent Oncofertility pp 243-249 | Cite as
Optimal Technique for Laparoscopic Oophorectomy for Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation in Pediatric Girls
Abstract
For parents of a girl facing treatment that poses a threat to future fertility, the option of removal of one ovary now exists to cryopreserve the ovarian tissue prior to beginning the potentially sterilizing medical treatment. This option has an even more powerful impact, given the recent pregnancy achieved by a woman in Belgium after reimplantation of strips of ovarian tissue which had been cryopreserved when she was 14 years old [1]. The state of the science is such that for both premenarchal and post-menarchal girls, there is more hope than ever that these girls can have a biologically related child in the future and possibly achieve natural pregnancy.
Keywords
Fallopian Tube Ovarian Tissue Laparoscopic Appendectomy Harmonic Scalpel Ovarian ArteryReferences
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