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Prophylactic gonadectomy in 46 XY females; why, where and when?
Hormone molecular biology and clinical investigation - 8 Mar 2021
Basri Nurul Iftida, Soon Chong Hong, Ali Anizah, Abdul Ghani Nur Azurah, Zainuddin Ani Amelia
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: We compared cases of phenotypic female patients who presented with male karyotype and underwent prophylactic gonadectomy. CASE PRESENTATION: Five patients with female phenotypes presented in early adulthood with primary amenorrhoea with varying degrees of puberty. One was tall with breast development. Another was very short with clitoromegaly and multiple co-morbidities. The other three had no...
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