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Medical Management of Adolescents and Young Adults

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Medical treatment beyond childhood is focused on hormonal treatment to suppress abnormal function or replace absent functions, as well as on-going anatomical problems requiring surgery. In addition, there are issues of restricted reproductive capabilities and the possible medical treatments for these. Perhaps the most important issues in adolescence and young adulthood are the existential ones. These have often been neglected in the past and systems need to be established to manage them.

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  1. Department of Urology, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    John M. Hutson

  2. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Garry L. Warne

  3. Department of Gynaecology, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Sonia R. Grover

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Hutson, J.M., Warne, G.L., Grover, S.R. (2012). Medical Management of Adolescents and Young Adults. In: Hutson, J., Warne, G., Grover, S. (eds) Disorders of Sex Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22964-0_22

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