Disorders of Sex Development: Can You Be Sure This Baby Is A Boy or Girl? We Must See Beyond The Diagnosis

Authors

  • Mohammed Shadrul Alam Professor of Pediatric Surgery, ShaheedSuhrawardy Medical College, Dhaka
  • Mirza Kamrul Zahid Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery, ShaheedSuhrawardy Medical College, Dhaka
  • Paritosh Kumar Palit Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery, ShaheedSuhrawardy Medical College, Dhaka
  • Abhi Kumar Chakraborty Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery, ShaheedSuhrawardy Medical College, Dhaka
  • Nirupama Saha Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery, ShaheedSuhrawardy Medical College, Dhaka
  • Md Hasanuzzaman Registrar, Department of Pediatric Surgery, ShaheedSuhrawardy Medical College, Dhaka
  • Md Shamsuzzaman Khan Resident Surgeon, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College, Dhaka
  • Sajal Kumar Majumdar Professor of Pediatric Surgery, ShaheedSuhrawardy Medical College, Dhaka
  • ASM Alamgir Choudhury Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College, Dhaka

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/jssmc.v10i2.41170

Keywords:

Disorder, Sex Development

Abstract

Throughout the pregnancy, the parents have anticipated whether their child will be a boy or a girl. No part of a newborn baby’s anatomy arouses as much interest initially as the external genitalia. Most newborn children have the typical features of a boy or girl, but in some cases the baby’s sex can’t be clearly identified. Infants born with ambiguous or abnormal genitalia may have indeterminate phenotypic sex.1 Disorders of sex development (DSDs), formerly termed intersex conditions, are congenital conditions in which development of the chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomic sex is atypical and may affect up to 1:1000 individuals in the population.2

J Shaheed Suhrawardy Med Coll, December 2018, Vol.10(2); 103-110

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Published

2019-04-25

How to Cite

Alam, M. S., Zahid, M. K., Palit, P. K., Chakraborty, A. K., Saha, N., Hasanuzzaman, M., Khan, M. S., Majumdar, S. K., & Choudhury, A. A. (2019). Disorders of Sex Development: Can You Be Sure This Baby Is A Boy or Girl? We Must See Beyond The Diagnosis. Journal of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College, 10(2), 103–110. https://doi.org/10.3329/jssmc.v10i2.41170

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2018)

Section

Review Articles

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