HONG KONG: A 66-year-old who lived all his life as a person who has given a shocking diagnosis after visiting doctors in Hong Kong with abdominal swelling - she is a woman.
Doctors realized patients were women after they found a large cyst swelling comes from the ovaries, the Hong Kong Medical Journal reported.
This situation is the result of two rare genetic disorders.
Subjects with Turner syndrome, which affects girls and women and as a result of problems with the chromosome, with features including infertility and short positions.
But he also has congenital adrenal hyperplasia, increase male hormones and make the patient, who has a beard and "micropenis", looks like a man. "Were it not for a large ovarian cyst, pulled her medical condition may never be revealed," seven doctors from the two hospitals in the city wrote in a study published today.
The 1:37 meters (4.5 feet) tall patients, who grew up as an orphan, did not have testicles, urinary leakage history since childhood, and stopped growing after puberty at the age of 10. The doctor said there were only six cases in which both genetic disorders have been reported in the medical literature. Turner syndrome itself affects only one in 2,500 to 3,000 females.
Vietnam-born Chinese patients decided to continue "perceiving themselves as having sex with men need testosterone replacement possibilities," according to the journal.
Most men have one X and one Y chromosome, and most women have a pair of X chromosomes But those with Turner syndrome tend to have only one X chromosome or have lost part of their second X chromosome.
This situation is the result of two rare genetic disorders.
Subjects with Turner syndrome, which affects girls and women and as a result of problems with the chromosome, with features including infertility and short positions.
But he also has congenital adrenal hyperplasia, increase male hormones and make the patient, who has a beard and "micropenis", looks like a man. "Were it not for a large ovarian cyst, pulled her medical condition may never be revealed," seven doctors from the two hospitals in the city wrote in a study published today.
The 1:37 meters (4.5 feet) tall patients, who grew up as an orphan, did not have testicles, urinary leakage history since childhood, and stopped growing after puberty at the age of 10. The doctor said there were only six cases in which both genetic disorders have been reported in the medical literature. Turner syndrome itself affects only one in 2,500 to 3,000 females.
Vietnam-born Chinese patients decided to continue "perceiving themselves as having sex with men need testosterone replacement possibilities," according to the journal.
Most men have one X and one Y chromosome, and most women have a pair of X chromosomes But those with Turner syndrome tend to have only one X chromosome or have lost part of their second X chromosome.
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