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Transient scrotal hair growth in infancy
1 Department of General Paediatrics, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK
2 Department of Paediatric Endocrinology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK
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Dr R Bragonier
Department of General Paediatrics, Southmead Hospital, Bristol BS10 5NB, UK; reg.bragonier@north-bristol.swest.nhs.uk
Keywords: scrotal; hair; infancy
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A male infant presented at 15 weeks of age having developed a number of dark coarse scrotal hairs during the preceding week (fig 1
). There were no other signs of androgenisation and testes were of normal infant size. Investigations showed a testosterone concentration within the normal range at 3.2 nmol/l (age related reference range 0.03–6.14 nmol/l),1 and a normal urinary androgen profile. Serum cortisol, 17 hydroxy-progesterone, FSH, LH, thyroxine, and TSH levels were unremarkable. Subsequent linear growth was normal and by 7 months of age, the scrotal hair had disappeared.
[in a new window] Figure 1 Scrotal hair in our 15 week old male infant patient.
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Transient isolated scrotal hair development starting at a few months of age has been reported in a total of 10 infants from various centres in the USA.2–5 To our knowledge this has not been reported from the UK. In seven cases spontaneous disappearance of scrotal hair occurred at between
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