Functional Disorders of Menstruation in Adolescence

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Abstract
THE purpose of this report is to review certain of the physiologic data that have been found of value in understanding and treating the functional disorders of menstruation in adolescent girls. Additional general information concerning this subject has recently been set forth elsewhere.1 , 2 Menstrual and Reproductive Performance of the Adolescent GirlSo common is erratic menstruation in the years immediately after the menarche that disturbances of menstrual function approach the status of a normal adolescent characteristic. There are, to be sure, cases in which a menstrual disorder connotes the presence of significant reproductive or constitutional disease. However, in most cases . . .