Publication:
Archivos Españoles de Urología
Title:
The Surgical Challenges of Disorders of Sex Development (DSD)
Authors:
Daniela Gorduza, Isabelle Vidal, Jacques Birraux, Claire-Lise Gay, Delphine Demède, Pierre-Yves Mure and Pierre Mouriquand
Institution:
Department of Paediatric Urology. Hôpital Mère-Enfant. Groupement Hospitalier Est. Bron. France
Summary:
Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) remain a fascinating challenge for the paediatricians, endocrinologists, biologists, psychiatrists, geneticists, radiologists, surgeons and for the whole society. This article aims at highlighting the current controversies and questions met with genital reconstruction in children born with abnormal genitalia. The main current techniques of masculinization and feminization are reviewed with their progress and their problems. The tools of decision used to assign a gender in some newborns with complex DSD are discussed showing that at the dawn of the third millenium, one still does not know why a boy is a boy, and a girl is a girl.
Archivos Españoles de Urología: The Surgical Challenges of Disorders of Sex Development (DSD)
