Menstruation in adolescents: What's normal, what's not

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1135, Issue , 2008, Pages 29-35

  Adams Hillard, Paula J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Menarche; Menstruation; Puberty

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ANOVULATION; BODY MASS; BULIMIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; HYPERANDROGENISM; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENARCHE; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PUBERTY; RACE DIFFERENCE; THYROID DISEASE;

EID: 45749114942     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1429.022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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