Gender Monitoring and Gender Reassignment of Children and Adolescents with a Somatic Disorder of Sex Development

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 639-649

  Meyer Bahlburg, Heino F L ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disorders of sex development; Gender identity; Gender reassignment; Intersexuality

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; BLADDER EXSTROPHY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GENDER DYSPHORIA; GENITAL MALFORMATION; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MICROPENIS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER; SEX REASSIGNMENT; VAGINA APLASIA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY;

EID: 80055094791     PISSN: 10564993     EISSN: 15580490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2011.07.002     Document Type: Review

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