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We present a 6-step model for shared decision-making in decisions about genital surgery for disorders of sex development: (1) Set the stage and develop an appropriate team; (2) Establish preferences for information and roles in decision-making; (3) Perceive and address emotions; (4) Define concerns...
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PMID: 21073122
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We support the specific distinction of N. iole and N. plauta. We describe a new endemic subspecies found exclusively in the paramo above 3000 m, an area where other endemics occur. It has phenotypic plasticity related to environmental factors....
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PMID: 20411722
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We studied 539 specimens and here redescribe the adults, male and female genitalia. Two new species are reported for Araucania and Aysén (IX Region and XI Region, Chile; the genus was previously known only from Argentina). These moths fly in October, November and February....
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PMID: 20411721
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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,...
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PMID: 20799577
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We describe 3, not related patients with a clinical diagnosis of CHARGE syndrome and each of them with a different mutation in the CHD7 gene sequence....
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PMID: 20204230
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There have been considerable advances concerning understanding of the early and later stages of ovarian development; a number of genes have been implicated and their mutations have been associated with developmental abnormalities. The most important genes controlling the initial phase of gonadal dev...
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PMID: 20688619
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Exposure of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) embryos to oestrogenic substances disrupts sexual differentiation of the reproductive tract of both sexes and impairs the copulatory behaviour of the adult male. To examine whether these effects can be induced by selective activation of oestrogen recept...
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PMID: 20047727
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We should be able to state clearly the variations in morphology that exist, attend to the immediate health of the individual, and avoid any attempt to stigmatize gender-atypical individuals....
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PMID: 21037403
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Of the 31,380 patients with pelvic fractures, 1,444 had GUI. Men more commonly sustained pelvic fractures with GUI than women (66.14% vs. 33.86%). The incidence of urogenital, bladder, and urethral injuries for men and women was 5.34%, 3.41%, 1.54%, and 3.62%, 3.37%, 0.15%, respectively. Patients wi...
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PMID: 19901665
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Our framework analysis of 617 (78.7%) students' qualitative comments yielded three themes: present and future benefits of PPE; possible barriers to PPE; and student stipulations for successful PPE. This article focuses on several sub-themes relating to students' anxieties about PPE of intimate body...
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PMID: 19877865
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We describe a patient with MGD, found to have a 45,X/47,XYY karyotype, with the majority of the cell lines being 47,XYY. To our knowledge, our report is the first to describe the long-term follow-up of a patient with ambiguous genitalia diagnosed at birth with 45,X/47,XYY mosaicism....
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PMID: 19960897
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To investigate and compare the dosimetric distribution of a conventional radiotherapy (CRT) technique and a genital organ sparing three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) technique for the treatment of anal canal cancer. Twenty-four patients with anal canal cancer treated between January 200...
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PMID: 19695047
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Most HSV-2 seropositive people shed HSV from the genital mucosa. Dichotomisation of people into "shedders" and "non-shedders" or "high" and "low" shedders yields inferences that depend upon sampling interval length. Overall shedding rates provide consistent measures regardless of the number of swabs...
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PMID: 19211593
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We conditionally removed Fgf8 from the cloacal/urethral epithelium. Surprisingly, Fgf8 is not necessary for initiation, outgrowth or normal patterning of the external genitalia. In early genital tubercles, we found no redundant Fgf expression in the urethral epithelium, which contrasts with the situ...
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PMID: 19592577
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This paper reports of the socio-medical management of intersexuality in a teaching hospital in southern Brazil. Findings reveal that the ‘search for sex’ in the body treats sex as a medical-diagnostic category constructed during decision-making negotiations. In the course of the various bodily ...
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PMID: 19296306
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These results suggest that NAATs on urine, with confirmation, are adequate for use as a new forensic standard for diagnosis of CT and NG in children suspected of sexual abuse. Urine NAATs offer a clear advantage over culture in sensitivity and are less invasive than swabs, reducing patient trauma an...
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PMID: 19451856
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In all nine patients the free skin graft is revascularized. The male patients show a good cosmetic result. The penile skin is mobile, which is also reflected by an unproblematic erection in the adult patient. The only complication in the female patients was a scar between the free skin graft and the...
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PMID: 19300977
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We measured the subjective evaluations and viewing times of 15 men and 30 women (15 using hormonal contraception) to sexually explicit photos. Heterosexual participants viewed 216 pictures that were controlled for the sexual activity depicted, gaze of the female actor, and the proportion of the imag...
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PMID: 18719987
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70% of patients with typical symptoms of pudendal neuralgia responded favorably to the infiltrations compared to 27% of patients with atypical symptoms (p<0.05). The mean number of infiltrations was 2.2. 84% of responding patients experienced symptomatic relief after the first infiltration. The mean...
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PMID: 19503045
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We report six Chinese patients from different families who were all diagnosed with 5alpha-reductase 2 deficiency based on urinary steroid profile findings and mutational analysis of the SRD5A2 gene. R227Q was the most commonly identified mutation in these patients. Management of sexual development d...
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PMID: 19342739
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We diagnosed this dog as a case of persistent Müllerian duct syndrome (PMDS), which is male pseudohermaphroditism. This is the first report regarding the incidence of PMDS in Miniature Schnauzers in Japan, and it suggests the involvement of a gene carrier....
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PMID: 19346713
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Development of the external genitalia of fetal and neonatal cat were studied macroscopically, paying attention to the formation of the labia and the sexual differentiation. The female urogenital folds budded from each side of the genital tubercle and, gradually extended to the tip of the genital tub...
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PMID: 19262023
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Using light and scanning electron microscopy, the internal male and female reproductive anatomy of the praying mantid Ciulfina klassi is identified and described. This is the first detailed study to investigate the internal reproductive morphology of any Mantodea. The female structures identified we...
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PMID: 18675935
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Psoriasis located on the scalp, face, skin folds, palms/soles and nails may require special consideration due to physical disability and discomfort, and because the treatment efficacy and safety may be different. There are many therapeutic approaches for psoriasis in difficult to treat locations. On...
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PMID: 19710555
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The overview presents an outline of the radiobiological mechanisms governing the origin of tissue reactions manifested by a number of systems influencing the course and the outcomes of chronic exposure of man. The issues under consideration include the key mechanisms of tissue reactions and adaptati...
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PMID: 19368316
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The circadian (near 24-h) clock is involved in the temporal organisation of physiological and biochemical activities of many organisms, including humans. The clock functions through the rhythmic transcription and translation of several genes, forming an oscillatory feedback loop. Genetic analysis ha...
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PMID: 19152739
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Epidemiologic reports routinely indicate that the high rate of HIV-1 transmission via mucosal exposure has been relatively stable since the epidemic began. Unfortunately, research on mucosal immune responses to HIV-1 has not been done in proportion to its importance. Most knowledge about immune resp...
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PMID: 20001886
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In 36 of examined patients the result of the surgery was considered good, in 4 patients - satisfactory and in 3 - poor. The most common complication of feminizing genitoplasty in our patients was stenosed vagina (in 10 patients, 23.8%). Location of urinary coil in anterior wall of vagina was found i...
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PMID: 19675521
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Müllerian inhibiting substance (MIS), a secreted glycoprotein in the transforming growth factor-beta family of growth factors, mediates regression of the Müllerian ducts during embryonic sex differentiation in males. In persistent Müllerian duct syndrome (PMDS), rather than undergoing involution,...
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PMID: 18723470
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The XIV Workshop on the Development and Function of Reproductive Organs was held in Rome, from 14-17 September, 2008, at the Congress Centre of the University of Tor Vergata of Villa Mondragone (Rome, Italy). The Workshop was conceived to be a survey of the events from the formation of the gamete pr...
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PMID: 19598109
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We examined the consequences of IL-15 overexpression for innate and adaptive immunity against genital HSV-2. Surprisingly, IL-15tg mice immunized against HSV-2 were not protected against genital HSV-2 challenge compared to control immunized mice. IL-15tg mice had a higher frequency of NK cells in th...
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PMID: 19004955
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Genital candidiasis occurs mainly in women referred as vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), and occasionally occurs in men as to be called balanitis. VVC is one of the most common causes of infectious vaginitis. Approximately three-quarters of women will experience an episode of VVC at least once in thei...
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PMID: 19177766
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Sexually transmitted diseases(STD) among children includes the following three infections; vertical transmissions from infected mothers to newborns and infants, infections among adolescents, and infections in victims of sexual abuse. Detection of STD organisms from children suggests presence of sexu...
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PMID: 19177758
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Fertility preservation should now be considered in children facing cancer treatment that has a high risk of gonadal toxicity including high-dose chemotherapy and bilateral irradiation of the gonads at toxic doses.
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PMID: 19153513
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Parents' stories reflected strong protective instincts towards their children along with feelings of shock and disbelief. Parents' social construction of gender influenced their attitudes and beliefs about their child's ambiguous genitalia and the need for surgery. Parents' desired to be 'good paren...
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PMID: 18047575
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These results suggest that environmentally acquired L. monocytogenes can transiently colonize the liver and synovial tissues of stressed turkeys and may be a sporadic source of contamination of processing plants....
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PMID: 19166048
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Haematological (WBC, RBC, Hgb and Hct) and genotoxicity (MNT) parameters, hepatic enzymatic activities (GST, GPx and GR), and a histopathological evaluation of liver, kidneys and gonads were assessed as general biomarkers of metal pollution in the shrew Crocidura russula inhabiting a pyrite mining a...
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PMID: 18448220
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We report on the clinical and molecular findings of two sib pairs from the same extended family with Robinow syndrome due to a novel intragenic ROR2 deletion involving exons 6 and 7 that could not be detected by sequencing. The affected individuals exhibited variability with respect to the cleft lip...
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PMID: 18831060
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We explore speciation rates and historical biogeography of the ground beetles of the subgenus Ohomopterus (genus Carabus) based on nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences. Ohomopterus diverged into 15 species during the Pleistocene. The speciation rate was 1.92 Ma(-1) and was particularly fast (2.3...
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PMID: 18765360
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Constitutional abnormalities of WT1 cause gonadal and renal anomalies and predisposition to neoplasia and must be investigated in patients with ambiguous genitalia, chronic renal disease and(or) Wilms tumors; primary amenorrhea with chronic renal disease; and aniridia, genital ambiguity and dysmorph...
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PMID: 19169475
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Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) benarrochi s.l., Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) oswaldoi s.l., and Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) konderi s.l. collected in Acrelandia, state of Acre, Brazil, were identified based on morphological characters of the male genitalia, fourth-instar larvae, and pupae. Morphological varia...
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PMID: 19058619
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This high frequency of short subclinical HSV reactivation in immunocompetent hosts strongly suggests that the peripheral mucosal immune system plays a critical role in clearing HSV reactivations....
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PMID: 18783315
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Research studies have provided important new information regarding the qualifications of examiners, the recovery of forensic evidence in children, the frequency of abnormal findings in children and adolescents, the healing of genital injuries, and the interpretation of medical findings and sexually...
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PMID: 18797265
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PURPOSE: To study the gender assignment and hormonal treatment advocated for disorders of sexual differentiation (DSD). METHODS: A study was done on patients who were reviewed in the Pediatric Intersex Clinic to evaluate the pattern of gender assignment and hormonal treatment advocated. RESULTS AND...
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PMID: 18704450
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I evaluated the effect of microhabitat quality on larval and pupal sex dimorphism and sex ratios using a Hawaiian chironomid (Telmatogeton torrenticola Terry) and examined differences between sex-corrected and noncorrected biomass and secondary production estimates. Larvae and pupae were collected f...
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PMID: 19036195
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This study suggests that by evaluation of the genitals in the I-Space, a better impression of genital ambiguity can be established. Binocular depth perception appeared particularly useful in distinguishing either a micropenis or enlarged clitoris from labia minora, since it helps in the estimation o...
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PMID: 18666092
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The objective of this technique is to preserve the sensitive glans and to create an excellent cosmetic aspect for the clitoris....
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PMID: 18597836
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This study describes the female genitalia of the tetrablemmid spiders Brignoliella acuminata, Monoblemma muchmorei, Caraimatta sbordonii, Tetrablemma magister, and Ablemma unicornis by means of serial semi-thin sections and scanning electron microscopy and compares the results with previous findings...
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PMID: 18563703
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Although straddle/impalement was the most commonly found mechanism of genital and anorectal injury requiring surgical repair, sexual abuse or assault was identified in 25% of the girls. Sexual abuse and assault should always be considered and assessed appropriately when such injuries are found. Cons...
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PMID: 18656075
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