KROK 1 2015 – Question 183 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
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?
- A. Cri du chat (cat cry) syndrome
- B. Edwards’ syndrome
- C. Patau’s syndrome
- D. Turner’s syndrome
- E. Klinefelter’s syndrome
Hint
Weigh the missing sex chromatin together with the neck, gonadal and palmar findings, and ask which chromosomal pattern would produce all of them in a phenotypic female.
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