Childhood surgery for ambiguous genitalia: glimpses of practice changes or more of the same?

@article{Creighton2014ChildhoodSF,
  title={Childhood surgery for ambiguous genitalia: glimpses of practice changes or more of the same?},
  author={Sarah M Creighton and Lina Michala and Imran Mushtaq and Michael Yaron},
  journal={Psychology \& Sexuality},
  year={2014},
  volume={5},
  pages={34 - 43}
}
The Chicago consensus statement of 2005 was created at the point of cumulative criticisms and debates around the clinical practice of childhood genital surgery. It was drawn up at a time when it had become clearer that medically non-essential paediatric genital operations were associated with poor adult cosmetic outcomes and sexual functioning. However, data were not available for non-intervention. Therefore, parents and clinicians had no reliable information on how a child growing up with… Expand
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