PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM: REPORT OF TWO CASES

Of several classifications of patients with hermaphroditism that have been proposed to date, the most lucid and self-explanatory one is that of McCahey,¹ which is as follows: group 1, male pseudohermaphrodites without müllerian derivatives; group 2, female pseudohermaphrodites; group 3, true hermaphrodites; group 4, male pseudohermaphrodites with müllerian derivatives.

I wish to report on 1 patient representing group 2 and 1 representing group 4 and at the same time call attention to certain anatomic features characteristic of each of these four groups.

MALE PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITES WITHOUT MÜLLERIAN DERIVATIVES  McCahey¹ gathered 12 reported cases of male pseudohermaphrodites without müllerian derivatives, and I have been able to add 7 more which have appeared in the literature subsequently.²Patients in this group are unquestionably male; the identity of their sex is frequently confused by the presence of derivatives of the urogenital sinus rather than derivatives of the müllerian structures. The presence