NECROPSY STUDY OF A CASE OF TURNER'S SYNDROME: A CASE REPORT

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TURNER (1) in 1938 described a syndrome characterized by 1) arrest or great delay in growth and ossification (dwarfism), 2) great delay in sexual development (infantilism), and 3) congenital webbing of the neck and cubitus valgus. CASE REPORT In 1945 one of us (2) reported a case of this syndrome. The patient was white female, 20 years old, with primary amenorrhea. Her father was an alcoholic. She was born prematurely. Her feeding was artificial and insufficient, and her somatic development had been retarded since birth. When she was 6 years old she suffered a cranial trauma with loss of consciousness. Two years later she had diphtheria. The serum with which she was treated caused serum sickness. Physical Examination: The body measurements were those of a girl 8 years old. Her face had a peculiar aged appearance, and the somatic proportions were definitely eunuchoid. She had a congenital webbed neck, and neither mammary development nor sexual hair. The external genitalia resembled those of a girl 3 to 5 years old. The uterus was about the size of a hazelnut. In the upper extremities a pronounced cubitus valgus was noticed.

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