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Why look back in anger? Masculinizing surgery in patients with DSD

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The BJU International paper by van de Grift and colleagues includes important data outlining the long-term cosmetic and functional outcomes for masculinizing surgery in patients born with differences in sex development. This overview highlights some of the important findings and their context in what can be a controversial subject.

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  1. Department of Urology, University College London Hospital, London, UK

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  2. Department of Pediatric Urology, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO, USA

    Duncan Wilcox

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Wood, D., Wilcox, D. Why look back in anger? Masculinizing surgery in patients with DSD. Nat Rev Urol 18, 385–386 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-021-00466-0

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