A Psychiatric Study of a Patient with “Pure Gonadal Dysgenesis”

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Abstract
The present work is a psychiatric cytogenetic study of a patient with “pure gonadal dysgenesis”. This term was first used by Harnden and Stewart (1959), but Swyer (1955) had already drawn attention to the clinical condition of a tall female with hypogonadal signs, amenorrhoea and poorly developed secondary sex characteristics, and Hoffenberg et al. (1957) had described two tall patients with gonadal dysgenesis and recognized this as a variant of Turner's Syndrome because of the normal stature and lack of congenital malformations; they termed it gonadal dysgenesis in the normal-looking female.