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17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency other imaging findings

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Abdulkerim Yassin, M.B.B.S[2]

Overview

Overview

MRI of the abdomen and pelvis may show absence of the uterus or vagina with likely gonadal tissue in the inguinal canals bilaterally with a cyst having a single sac contiguous to the gonadal tissue on the right.

Other imaging findings

Other imaging findings

MRI of the abdomen and pelvis may show absence of the uterus or vagina with likely gonadal tissue in the inguinal canals bilaterally with a cyst having a single sac contiguous to the gonadal tissue on the right.[1]

References

References

  1. Mains LM, Vakili B, Lacassie Y, Andersson S, Lindqvist A, Rock JA (2008). “17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 3 deficiency in a male pseudohermaphrodite”. Fertil Steril. 89 (1): 228.e13–7. doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.02.048. PMC 2259022. PMID 17509588.

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