[Effect of prepuberal gonadectomy in partial androgen resistance syndrome]

Ginecol Obstet Mex. 1996 Mar:64:120-1.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

The androgen resistance syndrome, is a dominant and recessive linked to X disorder, with clinically heterogenous manifestations. Reported case. A 17-years patient with primary amenorrhoea and genital ambiguity. Bilateral inguinal herniplastia and probable gonadectomy were performed at 14-months-old. His cariotipe was male 46,XY and the hormonal determinations showed the presence of hypergonadotropic hypogonadismo. The congenital adrenal hyperplasia (deficiency of 21-hidroxilase) was discarded. In the partial androgen resistance syndrome, the prepuberal gonadectomy avoid a progresive virilization of the external genitals. However, the estrogenic hormonal replacement is mandatory.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Age Factors
  • Disorders of Sex Development / metabolism
  • Disorders of Sex Development / physiopathology*
  • Estrogen Replacement Therapy
  • Female
  • Gonads / surgery
  • Humans
  • Hypogonadism / etiology
  • Infant
  • Karyotyping
  • Male
  • Receptors, Androgen*
  • Syndrome
  • X Chromosome
  • Y Chromosome

Substances

  • Receptors, Androgen