45/XO Turner's syndrome in the newborn: report of two cases.

摘要: A female infant with neck webbing developed heart failure and died at 8 days of age. Buccal smears were chromatin negative, autopsy revealed typical “streak” gonads skin cultures showed a 45/XO chromosome pattern. The second had similar clinical features in 3 Postmortem buccal tissue sections the kidney ovaries slightly elongated one was almost normal histologically while other contained relatively few ova. Both cases an aortic atresia, which has not been reported previously Turner's syndrome.