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streak gonad

Wednesday 17 January 2007

Digital cases

 Case 271 : 46,XY Pure gonadal dysgenesis. Streak gonad.

Synopsis

 streak gonad with fibrous tissue resembling ovarian stroma

Etiology

 constitutional monosomy X (Turner syndrome)
 SOX9 mutations (campomelic dysplasia) [Rodriguez 1993; Meyer et al. 1997; Velagaleti et al. 2005]

See also

 gonadal agenesis
 gonadal lesions
 gonadal lesional syndromes
 gonadal diseases