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clitoral hypertrophy

Monday 19 April 2010

In disorders of sexual differentiation

Clitoral hypertrophy in XX intersex can be differentiated from the penis at MR imaging on the basis of absent or poorly developed supporting penile structures such as the bulbospongiosus muscle and posteriorly located transverse perinei muscles.

See also

 disorders of sexual differentiation
 ambiguous genitalia
 sexual ambiguity