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Diagnosis and management of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
Annual review of medicine - 1 Jan 1998
New M I
Abstract excerpt
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia is a family of inborn errors of steroidogenesis, each characterized by a specific enzyme deficiency that impairs cortisol production by the adrenal cortex, and can lead to sexual ambiguity in both genetic males and females. The enzymes most often affected are 21-hydroxylase, 11 beta-hydroxylase, and 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, and less often, 17 alpha-hydroxylase/17,...
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