Pediatric gender assignment
Subtitle: a critical reappraisal
By: edited by Stephen A. Zderic ... [et al.].
Contributors: Zderic, Stephen A.
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 511
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Sex Differentiation Disorders -- therapy -- Child; Sex Differentiation Disorders -- therapy -- Infant; Genitalia, Female -- abnormalities -- Child; Genitalia, Female -- abnormalities -- Infant; Genitalia, Male -- abnormalities -- Child; Hermaphroditism; Sex Determination (Analysis)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: SRY and the genetics of sex determination.; title: Gonadal differentiation - normal and abnormal testicular development.; title: Mullerian inhibiting substance: an update.; title: Micropenis: an animal model and its human correlates.; title: Hypothalamic imprinting by gonadal steroid hormones.; title: Sexual differentiation of the human hypothalamus.; title: The endocrinologist's approach to the intersex patient.; title: 5Ü-reductase-2 deficiency and complete androgen insensitivity: lessons from nature.; title: The chop experience with cloacal exstrophy and gender reassignment.; title: A framework for the ethically justified clinical management of intersex conditions.; title: Gender identity and sex assignment: a reappraisal for the 21st century.; title: Gender assignment and reassignment in intersexuality: controversies, data and guidelines for research.; title: Prenatal diagnosis and treatment of intersex states.; title: Anatomical studies of the fetal genitalia: surgical reconstructive implications.; title: Feminizing genitoplasty.; title: Management of cloacal exstrophy.; title: Total phallic construction, option to gender reassignment.; title: Penile reconstruction with a free sensate osteocutaneous fibula flap in the surgical management of the intersex patient.; title: Tissue engineering approaches for genital reconstruction.