"Cyproterone" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An anti-androgen that, in the form of its acetate (CYPROTERONE ACETATE), also has progestational properties. It is used in the treatment of hypersexuality in males, as a palliative in prostatic carcinoma, and, in combination with estrogen, for the therapy of severe acne and hirsutism in females.
| Descriptor ID |
D003534
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
D04.210.500.745.432.219 D04.210.500.883.419
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Cyproterone".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Cyproterone".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cyproterone" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cyproterone" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
![]()
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Cyproterone" by people in Profiles.