Giantism, Virilism, and Pseudohermaphroditism

Suprarenal Virilism

Until a year ago the patient, a girl aged 5 years, was to all appearances norma], mentally and physically. During the dst twelve months she became fat, listless, unusually silent, Prone to sit about, disinclined to take an interest in her Surroundings or to play with other children. With the increasing fatness growth in stature was at an normally vigorous rate, hair developing on the limbs and ...

Male Pseudohermaphroditism

Congenital Adrenal Cortical Insufficiency with Virilism

This paper presents the case of a boy developing symptoms of adrenal insufficiency soon after birth, followed by unmistakable evidences of the changes in the development associated with androgens. Other reports bring out the fact that the picture of increased androgenic activity with or without adrenocortical insufficiency is associated with hyperplasia and persistence of the fetal (androgenic)...

Primary cutaneous virilism or idiopathic hirsuties?

Ideas have a life-cycle: they stimulate understanding in their youth but become stale and inhibitory with age. The same is true of the names of diseases which spring from these ideas. Following on some of our own recent studies, and in particular in the course of presenting them at seminars and lectures, it became apparent that the term "idiopathic hirsuties" has now outlived its usefulness let...

Male Pseudohermaphroditism Presented with Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Torsades de pointes is a life-threatening arrhythmia associated with a number of causes, but is very rare among endocrinologic disorders. We report a case of male pseudohermaphroditism with hyperaldosteronism due to a 17α-hydroxylase deficiency presented with sudden cardiac arrest.