Improvement of semen quality in an infertile man with 21-hydroxylase deficiency, suppressed serum gonadotropins and testicular adrenal rest tumours

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 518-520

  Mouritsen, Annette ^a   Juul, Anders ^a   Jørgensen, Niels ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

21 hydroxylase deficiency; Congenital adrenal hyperplasia; Infertility; Semen quality; Testicular adrenal rest tumour

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; FLUDROCORTISONE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ECHOGRAPHY; EVENING DOSAGE; FOLLOW UP; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MORNING DOSAGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE DEFICIENCY; TESTIS TUMOR;

ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; ADRENAL REST TUMOR; ADULT; DEXAMETHASONE; FERTILITY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GONADOTROPINS; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM COUNT; STEROID 21-HYDROXYLASE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951922202     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: 13652605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2605.2009.00958.x     Document Type: Article

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