O-045. Growth and development of girls with Turner syndrome
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Growth Curves for Girls with Turner Syndrome
A growth chart for girls with Turner syndrome has been prepared using data from four published series of European patients, and evaluated using retrospective data on the heights of girls with Turner syndrome seen at this hospital. The results indicate that calculation of height standard deviation score from this chart allows a reasonable prediction of adult stature in any patient with Turner sy...
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Turner syndrome (TS), although considered a rare disease, is the most common sex chromosome abnormality in women, with an incident of 1 in 2500 female births. TS is characterized by distinctive physical features such as short stature, ovarian dysgenesis, an increased risk for heart and renal defects as well as a specific cognitive and psychosocial phenotype. Given the complexity of the conditio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Human Reproduction
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1460-2350,0268-1161
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/14.suppl_3.24-a