Menstruation in adolescent: What's normal?

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Adams Hillard, Paula J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; GESTAGEN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; TAMOXIFEN; TANACETUM PARTHENIUM EXTRACT; VITEX AGNUS CASTUS EXTRACT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CUSHING DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EATING DISORDER; ENDOMETRIAL DISEASE; ENTERITIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MENSTRUATION; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MENTAL STRESS; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PROLACTINOMA; PUBERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; THYROID DISEASE; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; BIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58149470817     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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