KROK 1 2009 – Question 88 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A girl has been diagnosed with adrenogenital syndrome (pseudohermaphroditism). This pathology is caused by hypersecretion of the following adrenal hormone:
- A. Mineralocorticoids
- B. Estrogens
- C. Glucocorticoids
- D. Catecholamines
- E. Androgens
Hint
When cortisol synthesis is blocked, ACTH rises and drives the adrenal cortex to overproduce another group of steroids; ask which group would alter the external genitalia of a genetic female.
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