Amenorrhea, Primary: Multimedia

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Further Reading

Keywords

amenorrhea, primary amenorrhea, secondary amenorrhea, hypothalamic amenorrhea, pituitary amenorrhea, menstruation, absence of menstruation, gonadotropin-releasing hormone, GnRH, follicle-stimulating hormone, FSH, luteinizing hormone, LH, hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarian axis, HPO, gonadal dysgenesis, Turn syndrome, spontaneous primary ovarian insufficiency, POI, premature ovarian failure, POF, premature menopause, Swyer syndrome, 46,XY gonadal dysgenesis, 46,XX gonadal dysgenesis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, vaginal agenesis, mullerian dysgenesis, Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome, MRKH

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Vaishali Popat, MD, MPH, Clinical Investigator, Intramural Research Program on Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
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