Serum FSH level below 10 mIU/mL at twelve years old is an index of spontaneous and cyclical menstruation in Turner syndrome

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 909-913

  Aso, Keiko ^a,b   Koto, Shinobu ^a   Higuchi, Asako ^a   Ariyasu, Daisuke ^a   Izawa, Masako ^a   Igaki, Junko Miyamoto ^a   Hasegawa, Yukihiro ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY OMORI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

FSH; Karyotype; LH; Spontaneous and regular menstruation; Turner syndrome

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLICAL MENSTRUATION; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 45,X; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 47,XXX; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MENSTRUATION; MOSAICISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SECONDARY AMENORRHEA; SPONTANEOUS MENSTRUATION; TURNER SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, HUMAN; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOSAICISM; PUBERTY; TURNER SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649360079     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.K10E-092     Document Type: Article

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