1. Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome or testicular feminization: review of literature based on a case report
- Author
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Abounouh Nadia, Regragui Souhail, Karmouni Tarik, Koutani Abdellatif, El Khader Khalid, Slaoui Amine, and Ibn Attya Andaloussi Ahmed
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,insensitivity ,medicine.drug_class ,Feminization (biology) ,laparoscopy ,Case Report ,030209 endocrinology & metabolism ,androgen ,urologic and male genital diseases ,Bioinformatics ,feminization ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Amenorrhea ,X chromosome ,Testicular feminization ,lcsh:R5-920 ,030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine ,business.industry ,lcsh:Public aspects of medicine ,lcsh:RA1-1270 ,General Medicine ,Androgen-Insensitivity Syndrome ,medicine.disease ,Androgen ,Phenotype ,Endocrinology ,Testicular ,Female ,Androgen insensitivity syndrome ,lcsh:Medicine (General) ,business ,Hormone ,Rare disease - Abstract
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 the aspect of a woman. We report a case of complete androgen insensitivity syndrome in a 30 years old woman who presented primary amenorrhea. We aim to improve our knowledge of this illness from the data that provides us this study, and a review of the literature.
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- 2016