Volume 170, Number 5, 671-673, DOI: 10.1007/s00431-010-1357-6

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A young boy with diffuse hyperpigmentation and delayed puberty

Xian-Ling Wang, Yi-Ming Mu, Jing-Tao Dou, Zhao-Hui Lü, Bao-An Wang, Ju-Ming Lu and Chang-Yu Pan

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Abstract

An 18-year-old male patient had presented with diffuse hyperpigmentation after birth and with adrenal insufficiency syndrome since childhood. After puberty, no secondary sexual signs developed. Laboratory examination showed an extremely high concentration of serum triglycerides (9.14 mmol/L) and plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone (>275 pmol/L), however, a low concentration of plasma free cortisone (<25.1–67.6 nmol/L). Abdomen computed tomography detected atrophy of both adrenals glands.

Keywords  Adrenal hypoplasia congenita – Hyperglycrolemia – Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism

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