Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome: Case based review article

Babulreddy Hanmayyagari

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Babulreddy Hanmayyagari^1,*

¹Department of Endocrinology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Kondapur, Hyderabad -500084, Telangana, India

*Corresponding author: Dr. H. Babul Reddy, Department of Endocrinology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Kondapur, Hyderabad -500084, Telangana, India. Mobile: 9985661434; Email: babulreddy78@gmail.com

Received 4 May 2015; Revised 15 June 2015; Accepted 22 June 2015; Published 30 June 2015

Citation: Babulreddy H. Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome: Case based review article. J Med Sci Res. 2015; 3(3):130-133. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17727/JMSR.2015/3-025

Copyright: © 2015 Babulreddy H, et al. Published by KIMS Foundation and Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Abstract

Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS) a form of 46 XY disorder of sex development (DSD), usually presents with an inguinal hernia in an infant or a child and with primary amenorrhea in adult phenotypic female. We hereby report a case who reared as a female presented to us with primary amenorrhea and on further evaluation, diagnosed to have CAIS, then we also discuss in detail about this rare entity.

Keywords: complete androgen insensitivity syndrome; primary amenorrhea; gonadectomy