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Clinical, genetic, and pathological features of male pseudohermaphroditism in dog
Enrico Bigliardi1, Pietro Parma, Paolo Peressotti
1Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Animal Health, Parma, Italy. enrico.bigliardi@unipr.it
Abstract:
Male pseudohermaphroditism is a sex differentiation disorder in which the gonads are testes and the genital ducts are incompletely masculinized. An 8 years old dog with normal male karyotype was referred for examination of external genitalia abnormalities. Adjacent to the vulva subcutaneous undescended testes were observed. The histology of the gonads revealed a Leydig and Sertoli cell neoplasia. The contemporaneous presence of testicular tissue, vulva, male karyotype were compatible with a male pseudohermaphrodite (MPH) condition.
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