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A Psychiatric Study of a Patient with “Pure Gonadal Dysgenesis”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Johannes Nielsen  and
Niels Thomsen
Johannes Nielsen
Affiliation:
The Cytogenetic Laboratory, Aarhus State Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
Niels Thomsen
Affiliation:
Aarhus State Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
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The present work is a psychiatric cytogenetic study of a patient with “pure gonadal dysgenesis”. This term was first used by Harnden and Stewart (1959), but Swyer (1955) had already drawn attention to the clinical condition of a tall female with hypogonadal signs, amenorrhoea and poorly developed secondary sex characteristics, and Hoffenberg et al. (1957) had described two tall patients with gonadal dysgenesis and recognized this as a variant of Turner's Syndrome because of the normal stature and lack of congenital malformations; they termed it gonadal dysgenesis in the normal-looking female.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 112 , Issue 493 , December 1966 , pp. 1287 - 1292
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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