Patients with hermaphroditism, if they have external genital malformations, usually see a doctor when they are young, but most of them see a doctor because of the limited or abnormal development of sexual organs in adolescence, and usually need further examination to make a diagnosis.
Sex chromatin examination: Sex chromatin exists in interphase nuclei of normal women and can be taken from oral mucosa cells, vaginal wall cells, urine precipitation cells, skin, hair and so on. And oral mucosa cells are often used.
Extended data:
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1, true hermaphroditism: gonads and genitals and sexual characteristics have bisexual characteristics, that is, there are ovaries and testicles, or there are two kinds of gonad tissues (also called egg testis) in one gonad. The chromosome is 46XX or 46XY, or a chimera of both, and the external genitalia can be female, male or a mixture of both.
2. Female pseudohermaphroditism? It has ovarian tissue, the sex chromosome is XX, the sex chromatin is positive, and the external genitalia is positive to varying degrees. The clinical manifestations are male signs, and clitoral hypertrophy is even similar to male penis, with male hair distribution, muscular, hoarseness of Adam's apple and voice, rough skin and male face.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Children Androgyny