Development of a staging system for the menopause transition: A work in progress

Menopause

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 117-120

  Soules, Michael R ^a  

^a Seattle Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; AMENORRHEA; DYSPHORIA; EDITORIAL; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MENOPAUSE; MORPHOMETRICS; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SENESCENCE; UTERUS BLEEDING; VASOMOTOR DISORDER;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 16244407396     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042192-200512020-00001     Document Type: Editorial

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