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Postmenopausal virilization due to ovarian hyperthecosis
T Agorastos1, N Argyriadis, G Fraggidis
1B'University Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokrateion Hospital, Greece.
Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
A case of a 66-year-old obese woman with type II diabetes mellitus and a 4 year history of virilism is presented. After removal of the ovaries the raised testosterone levels returned to normal and signs of virilism gradually receded. The histological finding of nodular hyperthecosis of the ovaries is discussed in relation to hyperinsulinaemia.