Abstract
1.1. Two cases of benign testicular tubular adenoma in two sisters are reported. The gonads consisted preponderantly of testicular tissue; the ovarian tissue was represented only by islands of ovarian stroma. In spite of the predominantly male character of the gonads, the patients looked and felt perfectly feminine. Each sister had female external genitals, a vagina, but no or almost no uterus and only a tiny tubal rudiment.2.2. The removal of the malformed gonads caused severe deficiency symptoms.3.3. The genealogic tree of these sisters showed that several members had abnormalities of their sexual organs and their sexual personality which marked them as intersexual individuals.4.4. The gonads of these cases are interpreted as ovotestes. Embryologic facts as well as Goldschmidt's intersexuality theory are applied to explain the origin of this malformation.
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