Importance of cervical length in dysmenorrhoea aetiology

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 540-543

  Zebitay, Ali G ^a   Verit, Fatma F ^a   Sakar, M Nafi ^a   Keskin, Seda ^a   Cetin, Orkun ^a   Ulusoy, A Ibrahim ^a  

^a Suleymaniye Maternity and Women s Disease Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Dysmenorrhoea; Longitudinal axis; Transverse axis; Uterine cervix; Uterine corpus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CERVICAL LENGTH MEASUREMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSMENORRHEA; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX VOLUME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CERVICAL LENGTH MEASUREMENT; CERVIX UTERI; DYSMENORRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; ORGAN SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961627435     PISSN: 01443615     EISSN: 13646893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01443615.2015.1127901     Document Type: Article

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