Eunuchoidism
Another testosterone deficiency disease is eunuchoidism. The victim has an overall more feminine body than a Klinefelter’s patient. Some characteristics of eunuchoidism is…
Laboratory tests may show findings similar to those Klinefelter’s syndrome , . The eunuchoid man can be dramatically helped by testosterone therapy for he does not suffer androgen insensitivity in sex tissue cells.
On occasion it is not the testes which malfunctions but the pituitary. Preferred treatment , particularly in adolescence , is human chorionic gonadtrophin (HCG) , a hormone derived from the urine of pregnant women. It stimulates the testes to function normally , acting as substitute for the pituitary gonoptrophins.
