Case study: Sex reassignment in a teenage girl

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 799-803

  Reiner, William George ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

brain sexual dimorphism; gender identity; sex reassignment; sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; HYDROCORTISONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTOSCOPY; ECHOGRAPHY; GENDER IDENTITY; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HERMAPHRODITISM; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029930705     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004583-199606000-00020     Document Type: Article

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