uric acid, magnesium / 대한비뇨기과학회지

ABSTRACT

Twenty seven patients with micropenis including 15 patients who had micropenis accompanied by hypospadias were managed at Seoul National University Hospital during the recent seven years. Eleven patients had cryptorchidism, 9 of them were bilateral. Etiology was determined by hormonal assay including HCG stimulation test ; 9 as hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, 3 as primary testicular dysfunction, I as partial androgen insensitivity syndrome and 5 as idiopathic. Etiology was undertimined in 9 patients. One patients was found to be Prader-Willi syndrome and another one patient Kallmann`s syndrome. Four other patients had other anomalies , imperforate anus. cleft palate, hypertelorism and ptosis of eyelid, respectively. Nineteen patients had endocrine therapy using HCG, testosterone cream or Depotestosterone injection and all except one case respodeded satisfactorily in penile size increase.