Turner Syndrome With Partial Deletion of the X Chromosome Long Arm

Barbara M. Lippe; Barbara F. Crandall

doi:10.1001/archpedi.1973.02110190196018

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August 1973

Turner Syndrome With Partial Deletion of the X Chromosome Long Arm

Barbara M. Lippe, MD; Barbara F. Crandall, MD

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Los Angeles

From the departments of pediatrics and psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles.

Am J Dis Child. 1973;126(2):222-224. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1973.02110190196018

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An 18-year-old girl had short stature, secondary amenorrhea, and an elevated level of serum gonadotrophins. Sex chromatin studies revealed variable numbers of X-chromatin bodies of smaller than normal size. Trypsin-Giemsa banding of the chromosomes demonstrated the deletion of part of the long arm of an X chromosome.

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