21-hydroxylase deficiency and Klinefelter syndrome in an adult man: Striking a balance between androgen excess and insufficiency

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 605-609

  Balestrieri, A ^a   Zirilli, L ^b   Madeo, B ^b   Pignatti, E ^b   Rossi, G ^c   Carani, Cesare ^b   Rochira, V ^b  

^a BUFALINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTISONE ACETATE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE; PROGESTERONE; RENIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BREAST SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GYNECOMASTIA; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOGONADISM; KARYOTYPE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXOLOGY; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SMOKING; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE DEFICIENCY; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

17-ALPHA-HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; GYNECOMASTIA; HUMANS; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 56249143118     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.107.004648     Document Type: Article

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