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| | eMedicine - Gonadoblastoma : Article by Dimitri Kuznetsov, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Patients with mixed gonadal dysgenesis (45,X/46,XY) have a 55% incidence, while the incidence of developing gonadoblastoma in individuals with androgen insensitivity/male pseudohermaphrodism (46,XY) has been reported to be 30-66%. |
 | | The physical examination of patients with mixed gonadal dysgenesis (45,X/46,XY) is noteworthy for ambiguous genitalia with varying degrees of phallic enlargement, undescended testis, and a urogenital sinus with labioscrotal fusion. |
 | | In a review of 140 patients with dysgenic gonads, Troche and Hernandez (1986) found that the neoplastic transformation of abnormal gonads was common, and bilateral involvement occurred in 38.6% of patients. |
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