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REPORT OF TWO CASES

DONALD D. KOZOLL, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1942;45(4):578-595.

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Of several classifications of patients with hermaphroditism that have been proposed to date, the most lucid and self-explanatory one is that of McCahey,¹ which is as follows: group 1, male pseudohermaphrodites without müllerian derivatives; group 2, female pseudohermaphrodites; group 3, true hermaphrodites; group 4, male pseudohermaphrodites with müllerian derivatives.

I wish to report on 1 patient representing group 2 and 1 representing group 4 and at the same time call attention to certain anatomic features characteristic of each of these four groups.

MALE PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITES WITHOUT MÜLLERIAN DERIVATIVES

McCahey¹ gathered 12 reported cases of male pseudohermaphrodites without müllerian derivatives, and I have been able to add 7 more which have appeared in the literature subsequently.²

Patients in this group are unquestionably male; the identity of their sex is frequently confused by the presence of derivatives of the urogenital sinus rather than derivatives of the müllerian structures. The presence . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
EVANSTON, ILL.

From the Department of Surgery, St. Francis Hospital.

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