Turkish Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Hüseyin Özbey

İstanbul Üniversitesi, İstanbul Tıp Fakültesi Çocuk Cerrahisi Anabilim Dalı, Çocuk Ürolojisi Bilim Dalı, İstanbul

Keywords: Disorders of sexual development, gender, intersex

Abstract

Most of the time, diagnosis and treatment of the disorders of sexual development requires difficult and urgent decisions. However, those treatments must be accurate, appropriate and should not include irreversible surgical treatments, since the only person without consent is the patient himself or herself.