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Law, ethics and medicine
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Gametes or organs? How should we legally classify ovaries used for transplantation in the USA?
- Correspondence to Dr Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Oncofertility Consortium and Center for Bioethics, Science & Society, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 E. Superior, Lurie 10-231 Chicago, IL 60611-3015, USA; ltce{at}northwestern.edu
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Gametes or organs? How should we legally classify ovaries used for transplantation in the USA?
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- Received June 25, 2010
- Revised August 24, 2010
- Accepted September 2, 2010
- First published January 18, 2011.
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February 16, 2011
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