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A Controlled Study of the Psychopathology and Physical Measurements of Klinefelter's Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

H. Hunter
H. Hunter*
Affiliation:
Balderton Hospital, Balderton, University of Nottingham
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Klinefelter, Reifenstein and Albright (13) in 1942 collected and described nine cases of a new clinical syndrome, later given the eponym Klinefelter's Syndrome, which appeared at puberty in males and was characterized by gynaecomastia, hypogonadism, aspermatogenesis, increased follicle-stimulating hormone (F.S.H.) and normal or low 17-ketosteroid urinary excretion.

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Anthroponietric
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 521 , April 1969 , pp. 443 - 448
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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