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[Diagnosis and surgical treatment for male pseudohermaphroditism in a multidisciplinary unit of intersexual conditions].
Cirugia pediatrica : organo oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Cirugia Pediatrica - 1 Apr 2004
Piró Biosca C, Audi Parera L, Feránndez Cancio M, Martín Osorio J A, Toran Fuentes N, Asensio Llorente M, Carrascosa Lezcano A
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The birth of a child with ambiguous genitalia represents a very stressing situation for the family, and afterwards has great social and psychological repercussion for the patient itself. Until now, the sex assignation is being done according to the phenotype. Now, with the molecular diagnosis of the genes that play a role in the sexual development, the assignation must also take into account the prognosis of...
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