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The neck in the XO and XX/XO mosaic Turner''s syndrome |
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| Authors: | Annette Felix Vlastimil Capek Hermine M. Pashayan |
| Affiliation: | Center for GeneticsAbraham Lincoln School of Medicine, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois;Department of RadiologyAbraham Lincoln School of Medicine, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois;Center for Craniofacial AnomaliesAbraham Lincoln School of Medicine, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois |
| Abstract: | An attempt to document both the clinical appearance of the neck and the roentgenographic findings of the cervical vertebrae in 15 cytogenetically diagnosed cases of the Turner syndrome rcvealed the following findings: 11 had webbed necks, 13 patients had short necks, and of those, 10 had a short and webbed neck. Fourteen patients had a low hairline, of those, three had a short neck and a low hairline. Ten patients had a webbed and a short neck with a low hairline. Twelve patients had hypoplastic cervical vertebrae, of whom eight showed hypoplasia of all the cervical vertebrae and four showed hypoplasia of one or more cervical vertebrae. |
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