Hermaphroditism: Psychology & Case Management

A Case of Spurious Hermaphroditism

months old, was brought to me foe examination. The mother informed me that the child hac never passed a stool since its birth and that there was s?mething wrong about its "-enitals ; in short, she could not tell whether the infant was a male or female. The child's aidomen was very much swollen, and its limbs by contrast looted very thin indeed. I examined the cleft of the nates, aid found that ...

A Case of Hermaphroditism in the Mouse *

In a recent article Hooker and Strong described a hermaphrodite mouse which was a member of the C57 black strain. They also reviewed the cases of hermaphroditism in rodents which have been recorded in the literature.8 An additional case occurred recently in our laboratory in a mouse of the dilute brown strain. This animal was a descendant of a line in which sexual abnormalities have occurred pr...

Hermaphroditism

A Case of True Hermaphroditism Presenting as a Testicular Tumour

True hermaphroditism represents only 5% cases of all of disorders of sexual differentiation (DSD) and usually present in early childhood with ambiguous genitalia. Occasionally, cases might present later on in adolescence with problems of sexual maturation. Our case report presents a true hermaphrodite with normal male phenotype that presented as a left testicular mass, two years after being dia...

Child with True Hermaphroditism

True hermaphrodites possess both ovarian and testicular tissues which may be present in separate gonads or combined in an ovotestis. External and internal genitalia are ambiguous and variable, though a prominent penial structure is usual. Chromosome examination of true hermaphroditism has revealed an XX sex chromosome complement in the majority of cases, but the XY complement and different mosa...