* This paper is a selective précis from a forthcoming full study of the Baubo affair in all its aspects philological, medical, religious and philosophical. Parts I and III were written by A.L. Pierris; part II from N.A. Georgopoulos and G.A. Vagenakis. Demeter wanders over the wide earth, sorrowful and lamenting, in search of her. Her quest is in vain. The great Goddess finally arrives at Eleus...

Worldwide, more than 200 cases of Denys-Drash syndrome have been published up to date. This patient from Southern Philippines presented with a left abdominal mass associated signs nephropathy such as periorbital, facial and bipedal edema. He also ambiguous genitalia undescended testis, left.

This study aimed to determine the possible etiology ot ambiguous genitalia in 41 newborn intants at a referral hospital in Hofuf city, Saudi Arabia. In 46,XX karyotype patients (n 14), congenital adrenal hyperplasia and general malformation disorder were the most common causes of genital ambiguity, while in 46,XY karyotype patients (n=18), testosterone pathway biosynthetic defect was the most c...

Lissencephaly has been described in over 10 distinct malformation syndromes. Recently, we have recognized 5 children from four unrelated families with an almost identical disorder comprising lissencephaly with a posterior-to-anterior gradient and only moderate increase in thickness of the cortex, absent corpus callosum, neonatal-onset epilepsy, hypothalamic dysfunction including deficient tempe...

Proper gender assignment to a neonate born with ambiguous genitalia is a social emergency of the newborn period. Once an appropriate sex assignment has been made, the next critical step is performance, if needed, of a reconstructive procedure in a timely fashion. In an attempt to evaluate our experience with this unique group of patients, we have retrospectively reviewed the course of 69 childr...

Congenital aberrations of female children's external genitalia are common worldwide with varied mode of presentation especially in regions with poor awareness. This prospective experience between July 2004 and June 2008 at two Nigerian healthcare facilities is on the mode of presentation and challenges of management of female children with ambiguous genitalia. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CA...

BACKGROUND Ambiguous genitalia is an uncommon situation that happens between 1 and 2 per every 1000 live births and falls under the umbrella diagnosis of disorders of sexual development. CASE In this article, we report a case of male pseudohermaphroditism with ambiguous genitalia. The proband was a 12 yr old girl without any uterus or ovarian tissues. Karyotype of the case is 46, XY. Genes in...

The authors compared sublexical and supralexical approaches to morphological processing with unambiguous and ambiguous inflected words and words with ambiguous stems in 3 masked and unmasked priming experiments in Finnish. Experiment 1 showed equal facilitation for all prime types with a short 60-ms stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) but significant facilitation for unambiguous words only with a l...