Cirugía mínimamente invasiva en el intersexo: nuestra experiencia*

The term intersex makes reference to either newborn infants who show ambiguous external genitals or those who, having a nor- mal phenotype, show growth alterations in the puberty. The etiologic diagnostic is oriented by the physical examination, bio- chemical studies, radiologic, surgical techniques and histological dis- coveries; that enables us to decide one more accurate sex assignment; the laparoscopy plays an important role, for the direct visualisation of the intra-abdominal gonads, internal genital identification, gonadal biopsy, as well as therapeutic interventions as gonadectomy, orchido- pexy and resection of mullerian remants, replacing totally the laparo- tomy. The purpose of our job was evaluate the role of the minimal inva-