Hyperandrogenism is the key pathologic feature of polycystic ovary syndrome, but diagnostic assessment of androgen excess in women is problematic, and the biochemical assays in routine clinical ...

[1] The clinical issues in PCOS relate to menstrual irregularities, symptoms of excess androgen ... clinical or biochemical hyperandrogenism and the exclusion of other known disorders, such ...

Patients (women diagnosed with PCOS) were subdivided into three groups according to whether they had biochemical or clinical hyperandrogenism, or no evidence of hyperandrogenism. Patients with ...