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Medical Insider – Dr. Ria P. Maslog

Klinefelter Syndrome

This syndrome is also known as the XXY Syndrome and Seminiferous Tubule Dysgenesis.

The frequency of this syndrome to occur is in about 1:400 male live births.

The affected individuals have the following characteristics:

– male phenotype

– mental retardation

– gynecomastia

– infantile genitals

– eunuchoid body proportions

– sterility

– increased Follicle Stimulating Hormone(FSH) in the urine.

It was mentioned in the Textbook of Pediatrics by Dr Fe del Mundo 

that there was a case of Klinefelter syndrome in a child of 4 years 

where the major presenting signs were micropenis and cryptorchidism.

The child had 48 chromosomes with a sex chromosome complement of XXXY.

It is not easy to detect clinically a Klinefelter syndrome in a child because of the absence of symptoms characteristic of the syndrome in the adult.

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