Health Care Professionals and Intersex Conditions
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Health care professionals and intersex conditions.
A s part of a larger project, a multidisciplinary group convened by The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY, met to consider medical, psychosocial, and ethical issues associated with the care of children born with atypical genitalia or later found to have other conditions now commonly grouped together as “intersex.” These children may have congenital adrenal hyperplasia, gonadal dysgenesis, hypospadi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1072-4710
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.158.5.426