Primary amenorrhea accompanied by adrenal adenoma: Start of menarche soon after tumor resection

Internal Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 972-976

  Takahashi, Yoshimi ^a   Ninomiya, Jun ^a   Horiguchi, Jun ^a   Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^a   Sato, Minoru ^a   Koibuchi, Yukio ^a   Yoshida, Takashi ^a   Yoshida, Miho ^a   Takata, Daisuke ^a   Odawara, Hiroki ^a   Yokoe, Takao ^a   Ino, Yuichi ^a   Morishita, Yasuo ^a   Mori, Masatomo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenal adenoma; Primary amenorrhea; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN DERIVATIVE; CORTODOXONE; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE; STEROID HORMONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MENARCHE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMARY AMENORRHEA; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROGESTERONE RELEASE; STEROID RELEASE; VENOUS BLOOD; VIRILIZATION; ADENOMA; ADRENAL TUMOR; AMENORRHEA;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENARCHE;

EID: 0036858644     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.41.972     Document Type: Article

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