Steroid 21-hydroxylase Deficiency in a Newborn Female with Ambiguous Genitalia in Upper Egypt
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Ambiguous Genitalia in the Newborn
Efficient and accurate evaluation of the newborn who has ambiguous genitalia is required to provide appropriate medical therapy and assuage parental anxiety. Genital ambiguity usually is due to virilization of genetic females or undervirilization of genetic males who have normal gonads. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia is the most common condition leading to inappropriate virilization in females....
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عنوان ژورنال: West Indian Medical Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0043-3144
DOI: 10.7727/wimj.2016.144