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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Pediatr.
Sec. Children and Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fped.2025.1506996
This article is part of the Research Topic Non-Invasive Imaging Techniques In Children: Clinical Applications and Advances View all articles
Ultrasonography for disorders of sex development in Pediatrics
Provisionally accepted- West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Objective: To evaluate the clinical value of ultrasonography in the management of disorders of sex development (DSD). Methods: Ultrasonographic appearances and clinical data of 82 cases with DSD were reviewed retrospectively. Results: 54 cases were male phenotype, and 28 cases were female phenotype. All 12 cases with ovotesticular DSD were confirmed by surgery or pathological examination. 2 of 12 cases with ovotesticular DSD were misdiagnosed by ultrasonography. Conclusions: Ultrasonography can not only evaluate internal sex organs in the paediatric patients，but also estimate types, location, size, morphology of gonads，which provides important imaging evidence for the clinical diagnosis and treatment.
Keywords: Ultrasonography, Disorders of Sex Development, ovotesticular dsd, 46, XY DSD, XX dsd, chromosomal DSD
Received: 06 Oct 2024; Accepted: 28 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Wu, Tao, Jing and Zhuang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Hua Zhuang, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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