Age-related differences in features associated with polycystic ovary syndrome in normogonadotrophic oligo-amenorrhoeic infertile women of reproductive years

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 749-755

  Bili, H ^a   Laven, J ^a   Imani, B ^a   Eijkemans, M J C ^a   Fauser, B C J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GLUCOSE; GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN B; INSULIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AMENORRHEA; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HIP; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; STANDARD; STROMA; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035210404     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/eje.0.1450749     Document Type: Article

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