Hermaphroditism?

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Hermaphroditism refers to an individual's sexual organs have male and female performance, its occurrence reason is sex chromosome aberration, androgen secretion abnormalities lead to abnormal development of embryonic sexual organs. If there are both testes and ovaries in the same body, the external genitalia and the secondary sexual characteristics are between the two sexes, it is called true hermaphroditism. Hermaphroditism? Now let me tell you something.

Hermaphroditism?

Patients with hermaphroditism will have vulva when they are born, and it is difficult to distinguish between men and women, but they tend to be male. About 3 / 4 of these children are raised as boys. Scrotal dysplasia is like labia minora, and gonads can be felt in the groin or scrotum. During the development period, patients generally have female secondary sexual characteristics, such as breast hypertrophy, Female body shape, pubic hair is female like distribution, also have menstruation.

Any karyotype of true hermaphroditism has ovarian tissue, especially the ovarian structure is relatively perfect, so most of the true hermaphroditism ovaries can secrete estrogen during development, and may also secrete progesterone when ovulation occurs, so female secondary sexual characteristics can appear, but the development of the breast is relatively late, and most patients have uterus and vagina, and the vaginal opening is in the urogenital sinus, The common disorders of uterine development are hypoplasia and absence of cervix.

In true hermaphroditism, the gonad testis has normal structure. In true hermaphroditism, the gonad must be intact, that is, the testis must have normal structure, with signs of seminiferous tubules, interstitial cells and germ cells; The ovary must have all kinds of follicles and the phenomenon of egg cell growth. Some are not true hermaphroditism. The remnant tissue with only ovary or testis is not true hermaphroditism.

matters needing attention

True hermaphroditism is actually a symptom that is difficult to distinguish between men and women. We can't judge whether this person is a man or a woman through the sexual organs, because they may have both kinds of sexual organs, but their development is not complete. Although true hermaphroditism is rare, we still need to know.