Ovarian and uterine characteristics after total body irradiation in childhood and adolescence: Response to sex steroid replacement

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 106, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1265-1272

  Bath, Louise E ^a   Critchley, Hilary O D ^a   Chambers, Sarah E ^b   Anderson, Richard A ^c   Kelnar, Christopher J H ^a   Wallace, W Hamish B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADOTROPIN; SEX HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OVARY FUNCTION; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; UNITED KINGDOM; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; OVARIAN DISEASES; OVARY; SCOTLAND; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERUS; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 0032800969     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1999.tb08180.x     Document Type: Article

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