Child with True Hermaphroditism

Evidence of XX-XY sex chromosome mosaicism in a child with true hermaphroditism.

True Hermaphrodite: A Case Report

True hermaphrodite is one of the rarest variety of disorders of sexual differentiation (DSD) and represents only 5% cases of all. A 3-year-old child presented with left sided undescended testis and penoscrotal hypospadias. Chordee correction was performed 18 months back, elsewhere. At laparotomy Mullerian structures were present on left side. On right side testis was normally descended into the...

Hermaphrodite with Mosaic

SIR,-In a recent review de Grouchy 1 compiles the following karyotypes described in true hermaphroditism: 46 XX, 46 XY, 46 XX/46 XY, 45 XO/46 XY, 46 XX/47 XXY, 46 XX/47 XXX, 46 XX/46 XY/45 XO, 46 XX/47 XXY/ 49 XXYYY, and 45 XO/46 X isoY/47 XY isoY. We have studied the chromosomes of a true hermaphrodite with a new mosaicism, 46 XX/46 XY/47 XXY, which might throw some light on the possible multi...

A Case of Spurious Hermaphroditism

months old, was brought to me foe examination. The mother informed me that the child hac never passed a stool since its birth and that there was s?mething wrong about its "-enitals ; in short, she could not tell whether the infant was a male or female. The child's aidomen was very much swollen, and its limbs by contrast looted very thin indeed. I examined the cleft of the nates, aid found that ...

Unusual dual genital duct remnants in true hermaphroditism.

A case of true hermaphroditism is reported in which a 46,XY karyotype was associated with a testis and an ovotestis. The dual presence of a Fallopian tube and a vas deferens on the side of the ovotestis is documented as a previously unreported finding.