Congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia: Immunohistochemical study of testosterone synthesis in Leydig cells

Congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia: Immunohistochemical study of testosterone synthesis in Leydig cells

Introduction Congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia is a rare disease that causes disorders of sex development. The 46,XY patient presents with female external genitalia and inguinal testes. We describe the case of a patient with congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia and investigated the testes of th...

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Main Authors: Kanako Matsuoka, Yuichi Sato, Seiji Hoshi, Tomoyuki Koguchi, Soichiro Ogawa, Tomohiro Ishii, Nobuhiro Haga, Tomonobu Hasegawa, Yoshiyuki Kojima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-03-01
Series:IJU Case Reports
Subjects:
46,XY
congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia
fetal Leydig cell
testosterone synthesis
undescended testes
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/iju5.12142

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