We present the case of a young male patient (height, 158.1 cm [+3.3 standard deviation (SD)]; weight, 63.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe encountered a Chinese girl with pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1A (PHP1A) and her mother with pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (PPHP). Sequencing analysis of -Gsα revealed a heterozygous c.212+2T>C variant (NM_000516.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Long tubular duplication is a rare congenital intestinal disease, that can lead to emergency situations marked by massive hemorrhage. However, preoperative diagnosis and surgical treatment are challenging. This report presents preoperative images and details a surgical procedure for long tubular intestinal duplications with massive hemorrhage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report three Japanese patients with Sotos syndrome accompanied by marked overgrowth, i.e., a 2 8/12-year-old boy with a height of 105.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 3 (HSD17B3) deficiency is diagnosed when a testosterone/androstenedione (T/A-dione) ratio after human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) stimulation is below 0.8, this cut-off value is primarily based on hormonal data measured by conventional immunoassay (IA) in patients with feminized or ambiguous genitalia. We examined two 46,XY Japanese patients with undermasculinized genitalia including hypospadias (patient 1 and patient 2).
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