Hypogonadotropic patients with ultrasonographically detected polycystic ovaries: Endocrine response to pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 327-335

  Schachter, M ^a,c   Balen, A H ^a   Patel, A ^b   Jacobs, H S ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Gonadotropin releasing hormone pulsatility; Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism; Luteinizing hormone; Polycystic ovary syndrome

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 10244236517     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09513599609012819     Document Type: Article

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