PNEUMOROENTGENOGRAPHY FOR PELVIC STRUCTURES

To the Editor:— The article on intersexuality in the Feb. 16 issue ofThe Journal, page 538, is an excellent one, even though it is a brief account of this most interesting condition. However, I feel that there was one important omission in Dr. Morris' discussion of diagnosis of intersexuality in infants and children. He failed to mention the use of pneumoroentgenography in diagnosing the presence or absence of female pelvic structures in these controversial cases. For the past 35 years I have employed pneumoroentgenographic methods, and I have referred to their use in just such cases in several publications ( Radiology 28 :391-398 [April] 1937; M. Clin. North America 27 :55-65 [Jan.] 1943). Kunstadter and co-workers also reported the successful employment of pneumoroentgenography in a series of cases of intersexuality in infants (Kunstadter and Tulsky: Am. J. Obst. [unk] Gynec. 68 :819-829 [Sept.] 1954; Kunstadter, Guterman, and Tulsky: A. M.