Differential diagnoses of hyperandrogenism in a post menopausal woman

Differential diagnoses of hyperandrogenism in a post menopausal woman

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Evaluation of postmenopausal women with hyperandrogenism should be focused to identify Niacin the underlying pathology.Clinicians should have high degree of suspicion.The spectrum of differential diagnoses could be more sinister causes like androgen secreting adrenal and ovarian tumours in one end and the polycystic ovarian syndrome in the other GF SOURDOUGH STARTER end.We describe a postmenopausal woman who presented with hyperandrogenism due to Sertoli-Leydig cell tumour of the ovary.Her testosterone levels returned to normal four weeks after surgery.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sjdem.v3i2.

6374 Sri Lanka Journal of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism 2013; 3: 95-97.