SOMATIC SEX OF ANENCEPHALIC INFANTS
- 1 March 1958
- journal article
- letter
- Published by The Endocrine Society in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
- Vol. 18 (3) , 327-328
- https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem-18-3-327
Abstract
The nuclear sex was determined on various tissues of 35 anencephalic infants, 27 infants were female, 8 were male. In all instances was the nuclear sex concordant with that of the external and internal genitalia. The "sex chromatin" in the male anencephalics did not exceed 5%. In 27 infants the gonads were available for histologic study. Their histologic structure was concordant with the external genitalia. These findings are in agreement with those recently published by Polani and Claireaux.Keywords
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