Peham is credited (Burket and Abell, 1944) with the report of the first case in 1899 in Germany, but there was no typical masculinization in his case. Bovin (Kepler, Dokerty and Priestly, 1944) reported the first case in America in 1908 and Blair and Bell (Searle et al., 1948) reported the first case in England in 1915. By 1944, Kepler et al. collected 13 cases from the literature and added one...

Sex-selective abortion is not specific to Asia. Christophe Guilmoto and Géraldine Duthé explain why European countries in the Western Balkans and Southern Caucasus are affected too. Although the problem was described for the first time more than ten years ago, it is only now that the authorities in these countries and in Europe are starting to show concern. Masculinization of births in Eastern ...

THE great majority of hermaphrodites or sex reversals, hitherto described in domestic fowls, have been in old hens and have usually been associated with disease of the ovary and neoformation of testicular tissue. The present case differs essentially in several respects. It occurred in a Rhode Island Red pullet hatched in December 1934. The group to which it belonged began to lay in June 1935, a...

Classification of Adrenal Cortical Disorders Lesions of the adrenals frequently cause disturbance of endocrine function. Various clinical syndromes may result, depending on whether the secretion is increased or diminished and, when it is increased, which hormones predominate. The lesions and syndromes may be classified as follows: A. WITH DISTURBANCE OF CORTICAL FUNCTION i. Increased Secretion:...

In children, upto two-thirds of all adreno-cortical neoplasms present with virilization with or without hypercortisolism(l). These tumors may however remain non-functioning or may present with varying symptom complexes including feminization and hyperaldosteronism(2). The clinical and biochemical features of five children with adreno-cortical neoplasms presenting over a period of five years (19...