Inducement of therapeutic amenorrhea in mentally retarded women: two-year follow-up study
Mölsä, P.K.
American Journal of Mental Deficiency 90(5): 591-593
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9351 PMID: 3953694 Document Number: 275208
Therapeutic amenorrhea was induced in 44 moderately to severely mentally retarded women, aged 15 to 44 years. Subjects received lynestrenol or norethisterone in an identical oral dose of 5 mg daily. After 24 months, total amenorrhea was found in 70% of the women in the lynestrenol group and in 76% of those in the norethisterone group.
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