A clinical approach to women with hirsutism
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An approach to the patient with hirsutism.
Hirsutism is a common endocrinological complaint. The causes of this complaint can vary from dissatisfaction with a normal pattern of hair growth on the one hand, to the first clinical manifestation of androgen overproduction by an adrenal adenocarcinoma on the other. The purpose of this short review is to reexamine the physiology of hair growth in normal women, identify the common abnormal pat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sri Lanka Journal of Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2012-998X
DOI: 10.4038/sjdem.v3i1.5497