[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.