The effectiveness of two oral contraceptives in suppressing plasma androstenedione, testosterone, LH, and FSH, and in stimulating plasma testosterone-binding capacity in hirsute women.

The effectiveness of two oral contraceptives in suppressing plasma androstenedione (A), testosterone (T), LH, and FSH and in stimulating testosterone-estradiol-binding globulin (TeBG) was evaluated in 39 hirsute women. Twenty-seven hirsute women received norethindrone 2 mg.-mestranol 0.

Mumps oophoritis: a cause of premature menopause.

One cause of secondary oligomenorrhea is ovarian infection. A rare type of infection related to the disturbance of menstrual function is mumps oophoritis. Three patients with premature menopause presumably caused by this agent were described.

Features of Turner's syndrome in women with polycystic ovaries.

Four women with phenotypic features of Turner's syndrome and with poly cystic ovaries (PCO) are describe. In addition to the phenotypic features, Case 1 had primary amenorrhea and small PCO, Case 2 had a 46, XX/45, X karyotype (lumphocytes), Case 3 had enlarged PCO which contained a decreased number of oocytes, and Case 4 had enlarged PCO and was short in statute. These cases support the concept of a relation between PCO and the X chromosome.