Articles of category "Intersex surgery"

The name alone tells you that this is some heavy subject matter. Intersex surgery is a term that refers to a type of surgery carried out to correct birth defects due to intersex circumstances or supplementary causes, as well as early injuries of genitalia. Our article outlines the known intersex surgery purposes, the cases in which it is performed most often, and a brief summary on the research made so far.

Genital reconstructive, or intersex, surgery was discovered by an urologist H. H. and other surgeons at John Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, US) and other significant medical centers somewhere between 1930 and 1960. In those times medical understanding of general intersex conditions was somewhat primitive, initially based on identifying the gonad type by surgery or by mere palpation. Rearing and sex of assignment were then determined usually by the look of the external genitalia, but to determine the type of gonads on an infant patient was quite difficult. Most of the intersex patients at John Hopkins center were grown up and sought the doctor's help for they had genital function problems.