MYOTONIA ATROPHICA WITH TESTICULAR ATROPHY: URINARY EXCRETION OF INTERSTITIAL-CELL-STIMULATING (LUTEINIZING) HORMONE, ANDROGENS AND 17-KETOSTEROIDS*
- 1 September 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Endocrine Society in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
- Vol. 16 (9), 1235-1244
- https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem-16-9-1235
Abstract
The regular association of testicular atrophy and occasionally of other endocrine abnormalities with myotonia atrophica (dystrophia myotonica) has suggested that the disorder may represent a concatenated pluriglandular disturbance of endocrine origin and be susceptible to treatment by endocrine replacement therapy. An alternative interpretation is that myotonia atrophica, rather than reflecting a primary endocrine disturbance, is simply a manifestation of genetically linked degenerative phenomena seen in various tissues derived from embryonic ectoderm and mesoderm.Keywords
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