Abnormal vaginal bleeding in adolescents

Pediatrics in Review

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 175-182

  Gray, Susan Hayden ^a   Emans, S Jean ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL PLUS NORGESTREL; GESTAGEN; IBUPROFEN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; NAPROXEN; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NORETHISTERONE ACETATE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

BLEEDING DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INFECTION; MENORRHAGIA; METRORRHAGIA; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TURNER SYNDROME; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE; VAGINA BLEEDING; VAGINA CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRON; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MENORRHAGIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRACE ELEMENTS;

EID: 34248218490     PISSN: 01919601     EISSN: 15263347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/pir.28-5-175     Document Type: Review

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