Disorders of Sexual Development
- Resource Type
- Authors
- V. Reid Sutton; Bonnie McCann-Crosby
- Source
- Clinics in Perinatology. 42:395-412
- Subject
- Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Incidence
Sex assignment
Disorders of Sex Development
Infant, Newborn
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Diagnostic evaluation
Global Health
Multidisciplinary team
Ambiguous genitalia
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
medicine
Humans
Genetic Testing
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 0095-5108
Disorders of sexual development (DSDs) are a group of disorders in which there is discordance between anatomic or hormonal sex and sex chromosome complement. These disorders present with ambiguity in the newborn period and require prompt evaluation to determine the underlying cause for treatment and appropriate sex assignment of the infant. Neonatologists should confer with a multidisciplinary team for the diagnostic evaluation and management of patients with DSDs. This article provides a review of normal sexual development, algorithms used for evaluating infants with ambiguous genitalia, and conditions that can present with ambiguous genitalia in the newborn period.