Androgen insensitivity syndrome: ten years of our experience.

Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome in Three Sisters

Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome: A rare disease

Androgen insensitivity syndrome is a rare disease, manifested as normal female external phenotype to infertile male with 46 XY karyotype due to different level of resistance of androgen receptor. Androgen insensitivy syndrome is classified as complete, partial and mild androgen insensitivity. Partial androgen insensitivity syndrome is further subclassified according to morphogenesis as predomin...

A large seminoma occurring 20 years after diagnosis of complete androgen insensitivity syndrome: A case report☆

•A seminoma developed in a patient with androgen insensitivity syndrome.•The patient had a de novo androgen receptor mutation.•Proper management of AIS, including appropriate genetic counseling, is necessary.

Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome or testicular feminization: review of literature based on a case report

Testicular feminization, or the androgen insensitivity syndrome, is a rare disease. Because of various abnormalities of the X chromosome, a male, genetically XY, has some physical characteristics of a woman or a full female phenotype. Indeed the androgen insensitivity syndrome occurs because of a resistance to the actions of the androgen hormones, which in turn switches the development towards ...

Response to: Comment on “Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome: Optimizing Diagnosis and Management”

We appreciate Balsamo and colleagues’ interest [1] in our recent paper [2] about a case of complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS). We are grateful for their insightful comments and the opportunity to clarify a number of elements from our work. Since many of the opinions expressed in their letter are based on biased interpretation of data, we would like to point-to-point answer their qu...