Exposure to toxic environmental agents

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 931-935

  Gee, Rebekah E ^a   Newman, Joshua ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Salesforcecom Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT;

CANCER RISK; CHILDHOOD CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILITY; GYNECOLOGIST; HUMAN; MALE STERILITY; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUATION; OBSTETRICIAN; OVULATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBSTETRICS; POLLUTANT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STANDARDS; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; OBSTETRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84889866740     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000435416.21944.54     Document Type: Review

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