LONG‐TERM SUPPRESSION OF A TESTOSTERONE‐PRODUCING OVARIAN TUMOUR BY OESTROGEN/PROGESTOGEN THERAPY
- 1 July 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Clinical Endocrinology
- Vol. 27 (1), 121-124
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2265.1987.tb00847.x
Abstract
A 44-year-old lady presenting with hirsuitism was found to have a testosterone-secreting Leydig cell tumour of the right ovary. Serum testoterone levels were adequately suppressed for 8 years by combined oestrogen/progestogen preparation (Microgynon 30, Schering, West Sussex). The fall in gonadotrophin and tesosterone levels during therapy and their rise after stopping therapy suggests that the tumour was gonadotrophin dependent.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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