Genital masculinizing reconstruction for untreated intersex individuals in adulthood: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Partial androgen insensitivity syndrome (PAIS) is a rare cause of variations in sexual and genital development characterized by severe hypospadias, micropenis, and a bifid scrotum. Sex assignment and determination of gender are significant challenges both from societal and surgical considerations. This case report describes the surgical management of masculinizing genital reconstruction without urethroplasty in an adult patient with PAIS, demonstrating that achieving penile straightening and lengthening is possible as an initial surgery in adulthood.

Case description

A 30-year-old patient born with PAIS exhibited genitalia variation with severe perineoscrotal hypospadias and a microphallus. Assigned female at birth, he developed gender dysphoria in adolescence and

SUBMITTER: Parat C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11921304 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature