An 18-year-old woman has body disproportion, wing-like folds on the skin of her neck, underdeveloped ovaries, nuclei of her buccal epithelium cells have no Barr bodies. Dermatoglyphics method revealed that her adt angle is 66°. What provisional diagnosis can be made in this case?

Answer options

1. Turner’s syndrome
2. Kleinfelter’s syndrome
3. Cri du chat (cat cry) syndrome
4. Edwards’ syndrome
5. Patau’s syndrome

Explanation

An 18-year-old woman has body disproportion; wing-like folds on the skin of her neck, underdeveloped ovaries, nuclei of her buccal epithelium cells have no Barr bodies. Dermatoglyphics method revealed that her adt angle is 66o. What provisional diagnosis can be made in this case?In healthy females, there is usually 1 Barr body. This is due to the underdevelopment of 1 of the 2 XX chromosomes. In Turner’s syndrome, the karyotype is 45, X0. Note the underdevelopment of sex organs.