title: Orthotopic transplantation of fresh ovarian cortex: a report of two cases.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report two cases of orthotopic transplantation of fresh ovarian tissue.
  
  
  METHODS
  Academic hospital.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two patients with severe endometriosis, who underwent left oophorectomy for recurrent endometriosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ovarian cortex was reimplanted in the heterolateral orthotopic site.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Biopsies of the grafted tissue were taken 3 months after reimplantation. Viable primordial follicles were found. The presence of a neovascular capillary network was demonstrated.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Reimplantation of fresh ovarian cortex allows the survival of primordial follicles and may represent an alternative method for the preservation of ovarian cortex when oophorectomy is mandatory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium. donnez@gyne.ucl.ac.be
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Donnez
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Squifflet
authors.forename: Marie-Madeleine
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Dolmans
authors.forename: Belen
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Martinez-Madrid
authors.forename: Pascale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jadoul
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Van Langendonckt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010052:Ovariectomy / Q000379:methods*; D010053:Ovary / Q000601:surgery / Q000637:transplantation*; D016378:Tissue Transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous