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Early manifestations of testicular dysgenesis in children: pathological phenotypes, karyotype correlations and precursor stages of tumour development.
APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica - 1 Jan 2003
Chemes Hector, Muzulin Patricia M, Venara Marcela C, Mulhmann María del Carmen, Martínez Macarena, Gamboni Mercedes
Abstract excerpt
Testicular dysgenesis derives from abnormal gonadal development caused by chromosome aberrations/mosaicisms or mutations/deletions in SRY or other genes responsible for testicular differentiation. Dysgenetic male pseudohaermaphroditism has bilateral dysgenetic testes characterized by a cortical network of anastomosing seminiferous cords that penetrate a thin albuginea. In asymmetric gonadal differentiation (or...
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