Familial Leydig Cell Hypoplasia as a Cause of Male Pseudohermaphroditism
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Human Heredity
- Vol. 37 (1) , 36-40
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000153675
Abstract
A case of familial Leydig cell hypoplasia as a cause of male pseudohermaphroditism is described in two 46,XY female sibs. Biochemical and histologic evidence for such diagnosis is presented.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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