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Oral Contraceptives (Estrogen and Progestin)

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Oral contraceptive agents are used for the prevention of pregnancy in addition to non-contraceptive indications, such as for the treatment of menorrhagia or hyperandrogenism.

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

    Kimberly Kallianos MD

  2. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Jason M. Johnson MD

  3. Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Pritzker Medical School, Chicago, IL, USA

    Daniel Thomas Ginat MD, MS

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Pritzker Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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  2. Department of Radiology, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA

    Juan E. Small

  3. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Pamela Whitney Schaefer

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Kallianos, K., Ginat, D.T., Johnson, J.M. (2015). Oral Contraceptives (Estrogen and Progestin). In: Ginat, D., Small, J., Schaefer, P. (eds) Neuroimaging Pharmacopoeia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12715-6_47

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