Androgen insensitivity syndrome and Klinefelter's syndrome: Sex and gender considerations

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 623-640

  Diamond, Milton ^a   Watson, Linda Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANDROGEN THERAPY; GENDER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GONADECTOMY; GYNECOMASTIA; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MASTECTOMY; MENSTRUATION; MICROPENIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX; SEX CHROMOSOME; SHAME;

ANDROGEN-INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHAME; STEREOTYPING; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 2942590668     PISSN: 10564993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2004.02.015     Document Type: Review

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