• DOI:10.1007/s11255-004-7974-0
Corpus ID: 30865999

Male Gender Assignment in Aphallia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

@article{Chibber2004MaleGA,
  title={Male Gender Assignment in Aphallia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature},
  author={P. Chibber and Hemendra N. Shah and Pritesh Jain and P. Yadav},
  journal={International Urology and Nephrology},
  year={2004},
  volume={37},
  pages={317-319}
}

P. Chibber, Hemendra N. Shah, +1 author P. Yadav

Published 2004

Medicine

International Urology and Nephrology

Aphallia is known to be a very rare congenital malformation, with an occurrence of 1 in every 30 million births; only 75 cases have been reported in the literature till recently (Hendren WH. J Urol 1997; 157: 1469–1474). Gender reassingnment is recommended for the affected newborns in infancy (Elder JS. In: Walsh PC, Retik AB, eds. Campbell’s Urology. Philadelphia: Saunders: 12343–12344). We herewith report a patient of aphallia who presented at the age of 16 years and was treated with phallus… CONTINUE READING

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