The table below records disorders known to involve excess hair
growth due to hormonal influence (hirsutism). The clinical distinction
between hirsutism and hypertrichosis is that hirsutism involves
hair growth in a secondary sexual characteristic pattern. For example,
women with pigmented terminal hair growth in the beard, mustache,
chest, and escutcheon areas have hirsutism and not hypertrichosis.
Hirsutism typically involves endocrine dysfunction (abnormal hormone
levels). This is not necessarily a complete list of disorders involving
hirsutism. Links to relevant web pages on the Online
Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) web database are also given
where possible.
Where a disorder is known by more than one name, alternative
names are given in the second column and the record duplicated
in the first column under each respective name. Brackets around
alternative disorder names indicate an indirect association, for
example a subcategory of the disorder. These records are not duplicated
in the first column.
| Disorders with hirsutism as a secondary symptom |
Alternative names for disorder |
Links to OMIM web pages for disorder (where available) |
| |
|
|
| Adrenal hyperplasia |
|
201810 |
| Adrenal virilism syndrome |
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia |
201910 |
| Adrenocortical dysplasia |
Cushing syndrome |
219080
219090 |
| Cancer |
(Various) |
|
| Carney syndrome |
Myoxoma, spotty pigmentation, and endocrine overactivity |
160980 |
| Congenital adrenal hyperplasia |
Adrenal virilism syndrome |
201910 |
| Cushing syndrome |
Adrenocortical dysplasia |
219080
219090 |
| Cornelia de Lange syndrome |
Typus degenerativus amstelodamensis
(De Lange syndrome,
Brachman-de Lange syndrome) |
122470 |
| HAIR-AN (HyperAndrogenism Insulin Resistance - Acanthosis
Nigricans) syndrome |
|
147670 |
| Hyperostosis frontalis interna |
Morgagni-Stewart-Morel syndrome |
144800 |
| Hypersecretion of adrenal androgens |
|
145295 |
| Morgagni-Stewart-Morel syndrome |
Hyperostosis frontalis interna |
144800 |
| Myoxoma, spotty pigmentation, and endocrine overactivity |
Carney syndrome |
160980 |
| Neoplasm |
(Various) |
|
| Parana hard-skin syndrome |
|
260530 |
| Pineal hyperplasia, insulin-resistant diabetes mellitus and
somatic abnormalities |
Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome |
262190 |
| Polycystic ovarian syndrome |
Stein-Leventhal syndrome |
184700 |
| Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome |
Pineal hyperplasia, insulin-resistant diabetes mellitus and
somatic abnormalities |
262190 |
| Stein-Leventhal syndrome |
Polycystic ovarian syndrome |
184700 |
| Typus degenerativus amstelodamensis |
Cornelia de Lange syndrome
(De Lange syndrome,
Brachman-de Lange syndrome) |
122470 |
