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This chapter summarises the normal development of the urogenital system from which we can derive a series of simple rules for clinical diagnosis of a baby with DSD. We then describe a clinical approach to a baby with ambiguous genitalia using these rules, and supplemented with medical imaging, endoscopy or laparoscopy to support the basic laboratory and hormonal investigations.
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Hutson, J.M. (2012). The Neonate with Ambiguous Genitalia. 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_11
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