The Menopause: A Signal for the Future

Treatment of the Postmenopausal Woman: Basic and Clinical Aspects, Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-13

  Speroff, Leon ^a   Barnhart, Kurt T ^b   Gonzalez, Juan ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012369443-0/50002-8     Document Type: Chapter

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