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True hermaphrodites have both testicular and ovarian tissue. As noted by Dreger, 2 this model, centered on the gonadal anatomy, was adopted by clinicians, and all patients born with ambiguous...
The undiagnosed, untreated adult hermaphrodite might have been reared as either boy or girl, after random sex assignment by midwife, grandmother, or parents. Lack of menstrual periods a century ago did not seem reason to seek rapid medical attention.
True hermaphrodite is one of the rarest variety of disorders of sexual differentiation (DSD) and represents only 5% cases of all. A 3-year-old child presented with left sided undescended testis and penoscrotal hypospadias.
14 Ιαν 2022 · In 19th century medicine, a search for such patients’ “true sex” characterized clinical investigation, and determining “true sex” of an apparent “hermaphrodite” through medical interpretation...
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Abstract. The diagnosis and management of 22 patients with true hermaphroditism are described. Sixteen of them were first seen before the age of 4 months. The initial manifestations were ambiguous genitalia in 20 cases (two of them identified prenatally by ultrasound examination), isolated clitoromegaly in one, and penile hypospadias plus ...
9 Απρ 2014 · Despite this criticism, the book offers a historical account of hermaphroditism with regard to the medical and scientific communities in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, and it describes how beliefs generated in that time influenced later views of sex, gender and sexuality.
