Pediatric hermaphroditism

Hermaphroditism or ambiguous genitalia, also known as bisexuals, is the result of abnormal sexual differentiation, which means that the phenotypic sex is in an indeterminate intersexual state or the phenotypic sex is in conflict with the gonad or genetic sex. Male and female gender can be distinguished according to sex chromosomes, gonad structure, internal and external genital morphology, and secondary sexual characteristics, but some patients have different degrees of sexual characteristics, that is, people who do not meet the characteristics of typical male and female, extremely serious sexual abnormalities, especially external reproduction Organs have both male and female characteristics, affecting the determination of gender. Bisexual malformations are classified into gonadal and epigenetic differentiation abnormalities from the perspective of pathology.

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