@article{article_460738, title={Findings of male genital anomalies in a Turkish population with Autism Spectrum Disorders.}, journal={Anatolian Clinic the Journal of Medical Sciences}, volume={24}, pages={72–77}, year={2019}, DOI={10.21673/anadoluklin.460738}, author={Bodur, Şahin and Gül, Hesna and Çetinkaya, Miray and Taşkıran, Candan and Işıldar, Yetiş}, keywords={ASD,Male Genital anomalies,Cryptorchidism,hypospadia}, abstract={<div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.05pt;"> <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:’Roboto Lt’, sans-serif;">Aims: Autism spectrum disorder
(ASD) is a set of heterogeneous neurodevelopmental con­ditions, and genetics
has a key role in the etiology, in connection with developmentally early
environmental factors. These factors also affect the prevalence of congenital
anomalies in children with ASD. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of
genital anomalies in male patients with ASD in the Turkish population. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.05pt;"> <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:’Roboto Lt’, sans-serif;">Materials and Methods: Data of
524 children with ASD aged between 11 and 316 months were examined
retrospectively. The diagnosis was mostly established by clinical expression
and examination, rather than assessment using the formal tools. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12.05pt;"> <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:’Roboto Lt’, sans-serif;">Results: Four hundred and
thirty-two (82.4%) of the children were male and 92 (%17.6) were female. Only
19 of the 432 (4.4%) boys were diagnosed with a genital anomaly. Ten of the 19
patients (52%) was diagnosed with cryptorchidism, which was the most common
genital anomaly in our study. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:’Roboto Lt’, sans-serif;">Discussion and Conclusion: Despite having some limitations, this study is
one of the few studies with a large population that investigate the comorbidity
of genital anomalies in boys with ASD in the Turkish population, and showed
that male genital anomalies had a high incidence in the sample included. </span> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> </span> </p> <p> </p> </div>}, number={2}, publisher={Hayat Sağlık ve Sosyal Hizmetler Vakfı}