HIRSUTISM

 

• Idiopathic: familial, possibly increased sensitivity to androgens.

• Menopause.

• Polycystic ovarian syndrome.

• Drugs:   androgens,   anabolic   steroids,   methyltestosterone,   minoxidil, diazoxide, phenytoin, glucocorticoids, cyclosporine. 

• Congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

• Adrenal virilizing tumor.

• Ovarian virilizing tumor: arrhenoblastoma, hilus cell tumor. 

• Pituitary adenoma.

• Cushing's syndrome.

• Hypothyroidism (congenital and juvenile). 

• Acromegaly.

• Testicular feminization.