Female Pseudohermaphroditism with Adrenocortical Failure in Identical Twins
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Female pseudohermaphroditism with adrenocortical failure in identical twins.
The adrenogenital syndrome of prenatal onset has been described many times, and its association with adrenocortical failure is well known. Wilkins in 1948 collected 99 cases, of which 16 were male and 83 female. Ten of the male and six of the female cases had associated adrenocortical failure. Since then 35 further cases of this association of syndromes have been reported; 12 were male and 23 f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1954
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.29.144.132