Should CAH in Females Be Classified as DSD?
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Should CAH in Females Be Classified as DSD?
Great controversies and misunderstandings have developed around the relatively recently coined term disorders of sex development (DSD). In this article, we question the wisdom of including XX individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in the DSD category and develop arguments against it based on the published literature on the subject. It is clear that females with CAH assigned the f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Pediatrics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2296-2360
DOI: 10.3389/fped.2016.00048