Adiposogenital Dystrophy
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Adiposogenital dystrophy is a condition characterized by
- Feminine obesity
- Growth retardation and retarded sexual development, atrophy or hypoplasia of the gonads, and altered secondary sex characteristics,
- headaches
- mental retardation, problems with vision
- polyuria, polydipsia.
It is usually associated with tumours of the hypothalamus, causing increased appetite and depressed secretion of gonadotropin. It seems to affect males mostly.
Many overweight children may appear to have the disorder because of the concurrence of obesity and retarded sexual development; these children have no endocrine disturbances, however, and they mature normally after delayed puberty.
[edit] Synonyms
- Babinski-Fröhlich syndrome (named after Joseph Babinski and Alfred Fröhlich, but probably first described by Morgagni)
- Froelich's syndrome
- Frölich's Syndrome
- Hypothalamic Infantilism-Obesity
- Launois-Cleret Syndrome
- Sexual Infantilism
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[edit] See also
- Prader-Willi syndrome, to which it might resemble. However, this is a genetic disorder.
[edit] References
- synd/1792 at Who Named It - Babinski-Fröchlich syndrome
- National Organisation for Rare Disorders - Froelich's syndrome
