[Utility of ultrasonography in patients with ambiguous external genitalia: a clinical case]

P Annese; A Tempesta; C Bettocchi; L Cormio; G Pace; P Martino

[Utility of ultrasonography in patients with ambiguous external genitalia: a clinical case]

Arch Ital Urol Androl. 1996 Dec;68(5 Suppl):139-40.

[Article in Italian]

Authors

P Annese¹, A Tempesta, C Bettocchi, L Cormio, G Pace, P Martino

Affiliation

¹ Cattedra di Urologia R, Università degli Studi di Bari.

PMID: 9162346

Abstract

We report a case in which the use of ultrasonography in the perinatal evaluation of ambiguous genitalia could have avoided psychological, physiological and also medico-legal problems for the patient.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Disorders of Sex Development / diagnostic imaging*
Disorders of Sex Development / psychology
Disorders of Sex Development / surgery
Genitalia, Male / abnormalities
Genitalia, Male / diagnostic imaging*
Genitalia, Male / surgery
Humans
Hypospadias / diagnostic imaging*
Hypospadias / psychology
Hypospadias / surgery
Male
Ultrasonography