Abstract
The evaluation of the newborn infant with ambiguous genitalia is one of the most complicated challenges of medicine. Possibly no other field requires a broader application of both theoretical and practical knowledge, and certainly few decisions have greater social impact on the future of the patient. The aims of this article are threefold: to present a short summary of normal sexual differentiation; to provide a simple classification of those disorders that most frequently present as ambiguity of the external genitalia in the newborn; and to summarize the differential diagnosis, evaluation, and gender assignment in infants with ambiguous genitalia.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 213-221 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Urologic Clinics of North America |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - Dec 1 1978 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Urology