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Healthy young woman with absent or scant axillary and pubic hair
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syndrome of testicular feminization
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  • Notes that a small amount of vulvar hair is usually present. Interestingly, the patient discussed had shaved her left axilla 5 or 6 times in her life, but never had to shave the right axilla. [101]
  • Notes that some mothers of patients with testicular feminization syndrome have decreased genital hair. [102]
  • Pubic baldness can occur in women with trichotillomania. [103]
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    (1) Hirsutism. Pathophysiology, clinical evaluation, treatment.
  Schwartz FL, Flink EB.   Postgrad Med 1985 Jun;77(8):81-6, 90-3.  Pubmed+Abstract  Similars
    (2) McKusick 313700 = testicular feminization.
    (3) Case Studies in Endocrinology for the House Officer.
  Burch WM. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1987: 159-167.   Amazon.com
    (-) [This footnote was a comment, not a reference.]
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    101.Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 13-1990. A 23-year-old woman with primary amenorrhea, an abnormal karyotype, and bilateral inguinal masses.
  N Engl J Med 1990 Mar 29;322(13):917-25.  Pubmed  Similars
    102.Androgen resistance--the clinical and molecular spectrum.
  Griffin JE.   N Engl J Med 1992 Feb 27;326(9):611-8.  Pubmed  Similars
    103.Trichotillomania (hair pulling) [letter; comment].
  N Engl J Med 1990 Feb 15;322(7):470-2.  Pubmed  Similars
    104.Sex testing in international athletics. A small step forward [editorial; comment].
  Wilson JD.   JAMA 1992 Feb 12;267(6):853.  Pubmed  Similars
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