Surgery for Intersex

Adult genital surgery for intersex: a solution to what problem?

The desirability of routine genital surgery for infants with ambiguous genitalia is increasingly debated. But there is less discussion about intersex adults who choose genital surgery, despite evidence suggesting that the results are often unsatisfactory. This study reports on how six women with intersex conditions decided to have feminizing genital surgery and how they evaluated the outcomes. ...

Clitoral surgery and sexual outcome in intersex conditions.

Human Intersex

London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1962. THE extraordinar-y developmenit of research aInd increase in knowledge of sexual alnomalies and human genetics, in the last decade, has outdistaniced most clinicians leavinlg us sadly bewildered. The steady outpouring of papers has literally svamped us aIId if we are to gain any insight into this rapidly increasing field of medical understanding Nve are depeni...

Male Genitoplasty for Intersex Disorders

Aim. To evaluate surgical procedures adopted for male genitoplasty in intersex disorders. Patients and Methods. Case records of intersex patients undergoing male genitoplasty from Pediatric Intersex clinic were studied. Results. Of 356 intersex cases undergoing urethroplasty from 1989-2007, the hypospadias was penoscrotal (68%), scrotal (17%) and perineal (15%). 351 patients underwent chordee c...

Trisomy 22 and intersex.

Complete trisomy 22, with or without mosaicism, has been reported as a distinct syndrome. In this report an infant is described who was externally male but with female rudimentary internal organs and whose karyotype was 47,XX+22.