Question 340 · LEK · Menstrual disorders
Metrorrhagia juvenilis refers to abnormal vaginal bleeding in young females due to:
- A. anatomic causes related to congenital uterine anomaly.
- B. functional causes attributable to hyperthyrodoism.
- C. organic causes related to the presence of a foreign body in the vagina.
- D. functional causes attributable to hypocorticoidism.
- E. functional causes attributable to anovulation or luteal phase defect.
Hint
Soon after menarche the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis is still immature; think about what this means for ovulation and the luteal phase.
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