The most common form of the congenital adrenal hyperplasia syndrome is caused by an inefficient enzymatic hydroxylation of the adrenal steroids at the 21 position (1-4). The symptoms of this disease can be explained by a deficiency in cortisol secretion resulting in an increased ACTH output and an overproduction of androgens and cortisol precursors by the hyperplastic adrenals (5, 6). About a t...
