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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