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KMID : 0357820030270020073
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Korean Journal of Legal Medicine
2003 Volume.27 No. 2 p.73 ~ p.77
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An Autopsy Case of a Transsexual Woman
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Han Ki-Hwan
Han Seung-Ho
Kim Dae-Cheol
Jo Gam-Rae
Kim Kwang-Hoon
Choi Dong-Ho
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Abstract
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Transsexualism is a variety and complexity of conditions to the desire for sex change and may require medical treatments over psychological evaluations in some patients. Consequently, there is a potential confusion in the determination of anatomical sex in transsexuals arising from administration of hormone and/or sex reassignment surgery. In this article, we represent a case of a 52-year-old "woman"found dead on the road-side. "She"was naked on the scene and supposed to be murdered by strangulation of he neck. Surprisingly, autopsy findings as well as DNA typing revealed that "she"was transsexual once a man. We discuss medicolegal problems posed by medico-surgical treatment in transsexuals.
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KEYWORD
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Determination of sex, Transsexualism, Sex reassignment surgery, Autopsy
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