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Rev. méd. Chile
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124(9): 1111-5, sept. 1996. tab, ilus
Article
in Spanish
| LILACS
| ID: lil-185157
ABSTRACT
We report 2 women aged 48 and 65 years old with hirsutism and a painful abdominal mass. Laboratory assessment showed serum testosterone levels of 500 and 321 ng/dl (normal values below 110 ng/ml). Abdominal CAT scans showed an adrenal mass in both patients. The younger woman was subjected to a surgical resection, the tumor relapsed 2 years later and the patient died. The other woman died during the first hospitalization. Adrenal tumors infrequently secrete testosterone as described in these 2 patients