Utero-ovarian ultrasonographic and Doppler flow analyses in female childhood cancer survivors with regular menstruation and normal circulating follicle-stimulating hormone levels

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 455-461

  Battaglia, Cesare ^a   Pasini, Andrea ^a   Mancini, Fulvia ^a   Persico, Nicola ^a   Burnelli, Roberta ^a   Cicognani, Alessandro ^a   De Aloysio, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chemotherapy; Doppler; Ovary; Radiotherapy; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENSTRUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ARTERIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFANT; MENSTRUATION; NEOPLASMS; OVARY; OVULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; UTERUS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 31644442913     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.07.1299     Document Type: Article

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