Evaluation and Management of Menstrual Dysfunction in Athletes

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 263, Issue 12, 1990, Pages 1665-1669

  Shangold, Mona ^a   Rebar, Robert W ^b   Wentz, Anne Colston ^c   Schiff, Isaac ^d  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; GONADOTROPIN;

AMENORRHEA; ATHLETE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; OLIGOMENORRHEA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AMENORRHEA; ANOVULATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; OLIGOMENORRHEA; RISK FACTORS; SPORTS;

EID: 0025342279     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1990.03440120087043     Document Type: Review

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