Jesús Fernández-Fernández, Freddy Pachano-Arenas, Josymar Chacín-Fuenmayor, Joalice Villalobos-Robles, Carmen Zara-Chirinos
Disorders of sexual development in adolescents refer to children whose genitals at birth present characteristics of both genders, or to those children with normal phenotype that present a development alteration during puberty or adolescence. These disorders represent diagnostic and therapeutic challenges, because they can be triggered by different nosological entities; and on the other hand, patients carrying the same pathologies can present different anatomical alterations. Laparoscopy plays an important role in the diagnostic approach of these patients because, besides the fact that it allows an excellent visualization of the internal genitals anatomy, it also allows tissue sample taking for histological studies...
December 2009: Investigación Clínica