primary amenorrhea

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Noun1.primary amenorrhea - delay of menarche beyond age 18
amenia, amenorrhea, amenorrhoea - absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow
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Array CGH characterization of an unbalanced X-autosome translocation associated with Xq27.2-qter deletion, 11q24.3-qter duplication and Xq22.3-q27.1 duplication in a girl with primary amenorrhea and mental retardation.
Karyotyping verified the 46 XX pattern, thus confirming the MRKH syndrome as a cause of the primary amenorrhea. The final diagnosis was confirmed as congenital right lung aplasia with bronchial stump infection, MRKH syndrome, right renal agenesis, and left pelvic kidney.
None of the girls had primary amenorrhea. Menstrual Pattern: Three hundred and five (76%) of the girls had a normal menstrual cycle of 3-7/ 26 31 days.
In our case both hyperprolactinaemia and MR-KH syndrome can cause primary amenorrhea, although the later has high priority their association is occasionally reported.
The most severe forms presents with abnormal pubertal development and primary amenorrhea, where as those with post pubertal onset are characterized by disappearance of menstrual cycle (secondary amenorrhea) associated withpremature follicular depletion.
Frequency data, including the number of dancers and controls reporting disordered eating, primary amenorrhea, secondary amenorrhea, oligomenorrhea, and birth control use, were analyzed using a Chi-Square analysis.
A 22-year-old woman presented to our hospital with complaints of primary amenorrhea and intermittent lower abdominal pain.
Her chief complaint was primary amenorrhea and cyclic pain.
Primary amenorrhea is the term for not having gone through puberty by the age of fifteen.
Amenorrhea means the "absence of menstrual bleeding." Primary amenorrhea refers to women who have never had a menstrual period.
We emphasize the importance of karyotype analysis in patients with delayed puberty and primary amenorrhea. Prophylactic bilateral gonadectomy should be kept in mind for 5-a reductase deficiency in patients reared as girl to prevent the development of gonadal malignancy.
A 16-year-old girl was administered to our hospital because of primary amenorrhea and solid pelvic mass.
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