Sonographic Prenatal Diagnosis of Turner Syndrome

Turner syndrome is the most common sex chromosome abnormality in female fetuses, in which all or part of one of the X chromosomes is absent or has some other abnormality. The syndrome has a number of characteristic sonographic findings such as diffuse fetal edema, cystic hygroma with septations, renal and cardiac anomalies, increased nuchal translucency, and growth retardation. A case is presented of Turner syndrome diagnosed by cytogenic testing after a number of anatomic anomalies, including diffuse edema, cystic hygroma and growth retardation, were found by sonography.
Source: Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Case Studies Source Type: research