Hirsutism is excess terminal hair that commonly appears in a male pattern in women. Although hirsutism is generally associated with hyperandrogenemia, one-half of women with mild symptoms have normal androgen levels. The most common cause of hirsutism is polycystic ovary syndrome, accounting for three out of every four cases. Many medications can also cause hirsutism. In patients whose hirsutis...

The principal urinary 17-ketosteroids (17KS) were analyzed in 16 cases of hirsutism; their conjugated forms were separately cleaved, and the liberated 17KS were chromatographed and quantitated. Six were clinically classified as cases of Stein-Leventhal syndrome and the remaining 10 as "idiopathic hirsutism." 1 The following conditions were excluded a priori: adrenal and ovarian tumors, Cushing'...

obesity is the common clinical signs in hirsutism, which can cause metabolic disturbances like dyslipidemia, insulin resistance and hypertension. to investigate relationship of overweight and obesity with hormonal and metabolic parameters in suspected hirsute women, in a cross-sectional study, 184 suspected hirsute women were selected in a reproductive endocrinology outpatient clinic in north o...

rabson-mendenhall syndrome is a rare genetic disorder characterized by growth retardation, dysmorphisms, lack of subcutaneous fat, acanthosis nigricans, enlarged genitalia, hirsutism, dysplastic dentition, coarse facial features, paradoxical fasting hypoglycemia, postprandial hyperglycemia, extreme hyperinsulinemia and pineal hyperplasia. herein, we described a 10- year-old girl with physical f...

Background: Hirsutism is a common clinical problem that cause great distress to the patient, and which true incidence unknown. However, it more among Mediterranean women. excessive terminal hair growth in women androgen-dependent. Often of hyperandrogenism but can be also idiopathic. In hyperandrogenic states like cases PCOS, associate with other cutaneous signs this endocrine disorder acne AGA...

Background: Hirsutism is defined as the presence of terminalhairs with a male-like pattern in women, due to the increasedlevels of androgens or increased responses of the target organs toandrogens. Facial hirsutism has a negative effect on the quality oflife in female patients. Among the many therapeutic modalitie...

Leydig cell tumors of the ovary account for less than 0.1% of all ovarian tumors (1). We present two cases in which patients had markedly elevated serum testosterone levels and frank hirsutism. Both cases revealed right ovarian Leydig cell tumors upon oophorectomy with post-surgical resolution of hypertestosteronemia. While rare and difficult to diagnose, androgen secreting tumors should be sus...