Family Medicine

Oxford handbook of reproductive medicine and family planning

The Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Medicine and Family Planning, second edition provides essential practical information in the care of the adolescent and reproductive age females and males. Evidence-based and concise, this handbook is the must-have resource for all practitioners, trainees, and students in sexual and reproductive healthcare. Fully updated for the second edition, this handbook now contains additional practical guidance, algorithms and diagrams, a new chapter on recurrent miscarriage, as well as expanded informaiton on topics such as PCOs and hirsuitism. It follows chronological. Read more...

Table of contents :

PART 1

1. Sexual differentiation

2. Steroid hormones

3. Menarche and adolescent gynaecology

4. Ovaries and the menstrual cycle

5. Polycystic ovary syndrome

6. Hirsutism and virilization

7. Amenorrhoea and oligomenorrhoea

8. Recurrent Miscarriage

9. Menopause and hormone replacement therapy

10. Initial advice to those concerned about delays in conception