The association of significant renal anomalies with Turner's syndrome

Abstract

The incidence of significant renal anomalies in 38 patients with Turner's syndrome was 26 per cent (10 of 38 cases). An additional 11 per cent of the patients have insignificant renal abnormalities and 63 per cent apparently have normal excretory urograms. In this series there seemed to be no correlation of the incidence of abnormalities with either the phenotypic or karyotypic expression of Turner's syndrome, that is the 45/XO pattern of the mosaic variants. Therefore, clinicians should be aware that any patient with Turner's syndrome must receive a thorough clinical and radiologic evaluation of the urogenital tract.