A case from the library
No periods and excess hair in a 36-year-old woman
EndocrinologyMedium
Lucia Fernandez
36 years · Female
Vitals
- Heart rate
- 80 bpm
- Blood pressure
- 128/82 mmHg
- Resp. rate
- 14 /min
- SpO₂
- 99%
- Temperature
- 98.4 °F
How hard it is
A real-world presentation with one or two atypical features. You'll need targeted questions and the right test to narrow the differential.
The diagnosis is not shown here. Finding it is the case.
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Source
Adapted from a case report published in JCEM Case Reports, under the CC BY 4.0 license. The patient's name and some details are invented; the clinical picture follows the report. The report names the diagnosis.
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