Hormone Assays in Klinefelter's Syndrome
- 1 February 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Endocrine Society in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
- Vol. 23 (2) , 197-202
- https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem-23-2-197
Abstract
Methods of hormone assay were applied to the study of 23 patients with Klinefelter's syndrome and 29 healthy men of comparable age. A total of 321 assays was performed and the mean values for the excretion of urinary steroids by each individual were subjected to statistical analysis. This revealed a significantly low excretion of urinary neutral 17-ketosteroids, pregnanediol, pregnanetriol, estrone and, to a lesser extent, estradiol-17β, in the group of patients with the syndrome.Keywords
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