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Low adrenal androgen output in patients with abnormal laryngeal epithelium
W Colquhoun-Flannery1, J A Carruth
1Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Southampton General Hospital, UK.
Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences
|October 1, 1996
Abstract:
We present 16 new patients who had abnormal vocal cord biopsies. Each had a serum sex hormone profile performed on the morning of the procedure. The striking abnormality was that 12 (75%) had low dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEAS), the main adrenal androgen, and four of these had prepubertal levels.