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Lower Leg Ulcers in Klinefelter’s Syndrome

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Klinefelter’s Syndrome

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Leg ulcers were not a part of the syndrome characterized by “gynecomastia, a-spermatogenesis without a-leydigism, and increased excretion of follicle-stimulating hormone” described by Klinefelter, Reifenstein, and Albright in 1942. None of their original nine cases showed any sign of vascular disease on the lower leg. In addition, when Zup**er et al. (1967) reexamined five of these patients 25 years later, they found these particular cases to be free of varicose veins and ulcers.

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Breit, R. (1984). Lower Leg Ulcers in Klinefelter’s Syndrome. In: Bandmann, HJ., Breit, R., Perwein, E. (eds) Klinefelter’s Syndrome. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69644-2_10

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