Establishment and characterization of six new human endometrial adenocarcinoma cell lines.

The endometrial carcinoma cell lines EC-MZ-1, 2, 3, 5, 9, and 11 were established between 1986 and 1990. Four cell cultures were started from endometrial tissue, one from ascites, and one from a lymph node metastasis. Lines have to date been subcultured up to 180 times and the doubling time varies between 26 hr and 3 weeks.

[Value of the dexamethasone-mestranol-HCG test for the differential diagnosis of forms of hirsutism].

20 patients with hirsutism of different severity were examined to study the diagnostic assertion of the dexamethasone-HCG-test. The results show, that a well defined classification into the different types of hirsutism (adrenal, ovarian, idiopathic and mixed forms) is not possible using hormonal parameters.