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Familial hypopituitarism associated with mosaic form of Turner syndrome.
Gynecological endocrinology : the official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology - 1 Jan 2005
Lomna-Bogdanov Elzbieta, Bolanowski Marek, Slezak Ryszard, Sokolska Violetta, Pałczyiński Bogusław, Spring Adam, Demissie Marek
Abstract excerpt
We present herein an unusual coincidence of familial hypopituitarism associated with a mosaic form of Turner syndrome in two adult sisters (51 and 43 years old). Both patients had hypopituitarism diagnosed in childhood. They have never been administered growth hormone, and remained short in stature. They were not given long-term estrogen-progestin treatment, despite lack of menstruation. Early in childhood both...
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