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A 28-year-old man with mental retardation and multiple congenital malformations was found to have the classical features of Borjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome. Endocrine evaluations showed primary hypogonadism as the underlying endocrine abnormality rather than hypopituitarism as suggested in earlier reports.
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