Athletic amenorrhea

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 816, Issue , 1997, Pages 295-304

  Wolf, A S ^a,c   Marx, K ^b   Ulrich, U ^a  

^a Private Institute of Gynecological Endocrinology ^*  (Germany)

^b NONE

^c Private Institute of Gynecological Endocrinology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMENORRHEA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DELAYED PUBERTY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENARCHE; OLIGOMENORRHEA; OSTEOPOROSIS; SPORT;

EID: 0030841795     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb52154.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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