Anthropometry and menarcheal status of adolescent nigerian urban senior secondary school girls.

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Published in Int J Endocrinol Metab on April 01, 2013

Authors

Alphonsus Ndidi Onyiriuka1, Eruke Elizabeth Egbagbe

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria.

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