Adult women with 21-hydroxylase deficient congenital adrenal hyperplasia, surgical and psychological aspects

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 436-442

  Nordenström, Anna ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

androgen effects; congenital adrenal hyperplasia; CYP21A2; feminizing surgery; fertility; quality of life; sex assignment

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CYTOCHROME P450 2A; CYTOCHROME P450 2A2; ESTROGEN; FINASTERIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENDER IDENTITY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HIRSUTISM; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; VIRILIZATION; VOICE CHANGE;

ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; ADULT; ANDROGENS; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURES; SEXUALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960840960     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: 1531698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e32834810a4     Document Type: Review

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