Management of conditions associated with intersex, such as congenital adrenal hyperplasia, is controversial. A recent editorial in the BMJ called for long term studies of outcome. Females (genotype XX) with congenital adrenal hyperplasia are born with ambiguous genitalia, have feminising genitoplasty soon after birth, and often have repeated genital surgery and genital examinations in adolescen...

AIMS To review the morphology of the adrenal glands in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) on computed tomography (CT) to compare the results with established normal values for adrenal size and nodularity and to correlate adrenal size with serum cortisol secretory dynamics. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two observers independently reviewed the adrenal CT in 28 patients with MEN1, measuring the...

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amenorrhea, an absence of menses is a symptom that generally brings teenagers for evaluation. this study was undertaken to determine the etiology of primary amenorrhea with especial concern to non classic congential adrenal hyperplasia (nc-cah)-due 21 hydroxylase deficiency among female adolescents refered to clinics of pediatric endocrinology of tehran and iran university of medical sciences a...