Fróðskaparrit - 01.01.1965, Blaðsíða 95

True Hermaphroditism
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Fig. 7. Cell during division. Cultivated from skin biopsy from Case No. 1.
46 chromosomes are seen. About 2000 x.
During childhood it was noticed that his penis was small.
At the age of puberty his mammae started to grow, and his
voice only changed little. It remained high-pitched his whole
life. He was said to be normally interested in the opposite sex
as a young man. Before his first admission to hospital at the
age of 46 he had always been healthy. He had never com-
plained of periodical abdominal pains, periodical haematuria or
periodical recurring nose-bleeding. Although, at 44 — 45 years of
age he complained of »hot flushes« to the general practitioner.
The patient lived an active and normal manual worker’s life.
At the age of 30 he married a woman a few years older. The
marital relations were said to be normal and satisfactory. The
marriage was childless.
At 46 years of age he was admitted to the County Hospital
(Landssjúkrahúsið) Tórshavn, to be operated on for acute ap-
pendicitis. On examination during this and later admissions