Diagnosis and treatment of hypogonadotropism in men and women;Diagnostic et traitement des deficits gonadotropes chez l'homme et chez la femme

Revue du Praticien

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1283-1289

  Young, Jacques ^a   Schaison, Gilbert ^a  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METRODINE HP; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ANDROGEN THERAPY; ARTICLE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; INFERTILITY; LIBIDO; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVULATION; SECONDARY AMENORRHEA; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBERTY;

FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFERTILITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PUBERTY;

EID: 0033563480     PISSN: 00352640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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